A Healthcare-Associated Infection With Monkeypox Virus of a Healthcare Worker During the 2022 Outbreak

Diane Le Pluart; Mirabelle Ruyer-Thompson; Valentine Marie Ferré; Morgane Mailhe; Diane Descamps; Fabrice Bouscarat; François-Xavier Lescure; Jean-Christophe Lucet; Yazdan Yazdanpanah; Jade Ghosn

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofac520

A Healthcare-Associated Infection With Monkeypox Virus of a Healthcare Worker During the 2022 Outbreak

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 7;9(10):ofac520. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac520. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Authors

Diane Le Pluart¹, Mirabelle Ruyer-Thompson², Valentine Marie Ferré^{3

4}, Morgane Mailhe¹, Diane Descamps^{3

4}, Fabrice Bouscarat⁵, François-Xavier Lescure^{1

4}, Jean-Christophe Lucet^{4

5}, Yazdan Yazdanpanah^{1

4}, Jade Ghosn^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
² Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Dermatology Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
³ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of Virology, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
⁴ Université Paris Cité, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, Unité mixte de recherche 1137, Infection, Antimicrobials, Modelling, Evolution, Paris, France.
⁵ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Infection Control Unit, Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.

Abstract

This article describes a case of healthcare-associated monkeypox infection in France during the 2022 outbreak. A female medical resident accidently pricked herself with a soiled subcutaneous needle used to harvest a vesicle of a patient infected by monkeypox virus and developed 4 days later a unique skin lesion, positive for monkeypox virus.

Keywords: healthcare worker; healthcare-associated infection; monkeypox.