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OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx168
Keywords
Central African Republic; monkeypox; nosocomial outbreak
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- Institut Pasteur de Bangui
- Institut Pasteur of Paris, France [ACIP A-02-2013]
- Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Excellence (LabEx) research program
- Government of Gabon
- Total-Fina-Elf Gabon
- Ministere de la Cooperation Francaise
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An outbreak of familial monkeypox occurred in the Central African Republic in 2015/2016 by 3 transmission modes: familial, health care-related, and transport-related. Ten people (3 children and 7 adults) were infected. Most presented with cutaneous lesions and fever, and 2 children died. The viral strain responsible was a Zaire genotype strain.
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