What you can't see can hurt you: Presymptomatic shedding of replication-competent mpox virus

Sofia R Valdoleiros^{1

2

3}, Eskild Petersen^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
³ Emerging Infections Task Force (EITaF), European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

Comment

Sofia R Valdoleiros et al. J Med Virol. 2023 Jun.

. 2023 Jun;95(6):e28855.

doi: 10.1002/jmv.28855.

Sofia R Valdoleiros^{1

2

3}, Eskild Petersen^{3

4}

¹ Infectious Diseases Department, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, Porto, Portugal.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
³ Emerging Infections Task Force (EITaF), European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

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Keywords: epidemiology; infection; poxvirus; sexually transmitted disease; virus classification.

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