The Resurgence of Mpox: A New Global Health Crisis

Jaime David Acosta-España^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, 170120, Ecuador.
² School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Research Group of Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, School of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
⁵ Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina (CISeAL), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁷ Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁸ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas-Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁹ Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, P.O. Box 36, Lebanon.

Editorial

Jaime David Acosta-España et al. Infez Med. 2024.

. 2024 Sep 1;32(3):267-271.

doi: 10.53854/liim-3203-1. eCollection 2024.

Jaime David Acosta-España^{1

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3

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5}, D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana⁶, Camila Luna⁷, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{7

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9}

¹ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, 170120, Ecuador.
² School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁴ Research Group of Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, School of Biomedical Sciences, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
⁵ Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina (CISeAL), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁷ Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
⁸ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas-Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁹ Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, P.O. Box 36, Lebanon.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: None.

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