Monkeypox: Another Sexually Transmitted Infection?

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales; Gustavo Lopardo

doi:10.3390/pathogens11070713

Monkeypox: Another Sexually Transmitted Infection?

Pathogens. 2022 Jun 21;11(7):713. doi: 10.3390/pathogens11070713.

Authors

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{1

2}, Gustavo Lopardo³

Affiliations

¹ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira 660003, Colombia.
² Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima 15067, Peru.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1120AAQ, Argentina.

Abstract

Monkeypox virus is a zoonotic DNA virus (Poxviridae family), identified in 1958 in Asian monkeys (mostly Macaca fascicularis) in a polio vaccine research animal facility in Copenhagen, Denmark [...].

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.