A narrative review of pox: smallpox vs monkeypox
Abstract The famed variola (smallpox) virus and the monkeypox virus (MPXV) are closely related, and MPXV causes a milder form of febrile rash disease in people. Human monkeypox was mostly an uncommon zoonotic illness that was restricted to West and Central African wooded areas in the twentieth centu...
Main Authors: | Samiksha Jayswal, Jagdish Kakadiya |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-12-01
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Series: | The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00174-0 |
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