Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis
Several studies from the current 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak have documented co-infections with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. We present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset des...
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| author | Almira Opardija Geetha Sivasubramanian |
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| description | Several studies from the current 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak have documented co-infections with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. We present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset despite a 14-day course of tecovirimat therapy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-46fbe99a01c742ddba117eff1b2556ab2023-03-16T05:04:35ZengElsevierIDCases2214-25092023-01-0131e01707Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilisAlmira Opardija0Geetha Sivasubramanian1Correspondence to: University of California, San Francisco, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, 155 N Fresno St, Suite 307, Fresno, CA 93701, United States.; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, CA, United StatesDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, CA, United StatesSeveral studies from the current 2022 monkeypox (MPX) outbreak have documented co-infections with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. We present a patient with MPX and secondary syphilis who failed to clear the MPX virus 30 days after illness onset despite a 14-day course of tecovirimat therapy.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250923000318MonkeypoxSyphilisCo-infection |
| spellingShingle | Almira Opardija Geetha Sivasubramanian Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis IDCases Monkeypox Syphilis Co-infection |
| title | Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis |
| title_full | Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis |
| title_fullStr | Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis |
| title_short | Delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis |
| title_sort | delayed clearance of monkeypox virus in a patient with co infection with secondary syphilis |
| topic | Monkeypox Syphilis Co-infection |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214250923000318 |
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