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The ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak includes at least 7553 confirmed cases in previously non-endemic countries worldwide as of July 2022. Clinical presentation has been reported as highly variable, sometimes lacking classically described systemic symptoms, and only small numbers of cutaneous lesions in most patients. The aim of this study was to compare clinical data with longitudinal qPCR results from lesion swabs, oropharyngeal swabs and blood in a well characterized patient cohort.Methods
16 male patients (5 hospitalized, 11 outpatients) were included in the study cohort and serial testing for monkeypox virus-DNA carried out in various materials throughout the course of disease. Laboratory analysis included quantitative PCR, next-generation sequencing, immuno"],"journal":["Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology"],"pagination":["105254"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9528238"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Clinical characteristics and comparison of longitudinal qPCR results from different specimen types in a cohort of ambulatory and hospitalized patients infected with monkeypox virus."],"pmcid":["PMC9528238"],"pubmed_authors":["Degen O","Pestel J","Aepfelbacher M","Norz D","Fischer N","Tang HT","Pfefferle S","Matthews H","Hoffmann C","Hertling S","Schafer G","Unger S","Schewe K","Hermanussen L","Grundhoff A","Jordan S","Schulze Zur Wiesch J","Grewe I","Gunther T","Lutgehetmann M","Brehm TT","Addo MM","Schmiedel S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Clinical characteristics and comparison of longitudinal qPCR results from different specimen types in a cohort of ambulatory and hospitalized patients infected with monkeypox virus.","description":"Background
The ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak includes at least 7553 confirmed cases in previously non-endemic countries worldwide as of July 2022. Clinical presentation has been reported as highly variable, sometimes lacking classically described systemic symptoms, and only small numbers of cutaneous lesions in most patients. The aim of this study was to compare clinical data with longitudinal qPCR results from lesion swabs, oropharyngeal swabs and blood in a well characterized patient cohort.Methods
16 male patients (5 hospitalized, 11 outpatients) were included in the study cohort and serial testing for monkeypox virus-DNA carried out in various materials throughout the course of disease. Laboratory analysis included quantitative PCR, next-generation sequencing, immuno","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Oct","modification":"2025-04-05T13:27:19.59Z","creation":"2025-04-05T13:27:19.59Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9528238","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36057206"],"doi":["10.1016/j.jcv.2022.105254"]}}