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MONKEYPOX AND OCULAR IMPLICATIONS IN HUMANS
Faye, Yu Ci Ng et al. | Date Issued: 2023
Author
Faye, Yu Ci Ng
Yeh, Steven
Smit, Derrick
Oon, Tek Ng
Vasoo, Shawn
Curi, Andre Luiz Land
Agrawal, Rupesh
Affilliation
National University of Singapore. Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Singapore, Singapore.
University of Nebraska Medical Center. Eye Institute. Omaha, NE, USA / University of Nebraska Medical Center. Global Center for Health Security. Omaha, NE, USA / University of Nebraska Medical Center. College of Public Health, Omaha, NE, USA.
Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Division of Ophthalmology. Cape Town, South Africa.
National Centre for Infectious Disease. Singapore, Singapore / Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Singapore, Singapore / Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Department of Infectious Disease. Singapore, Singapore.
National Centre for Infectious Disease. Singapore, Singapore / Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Singapore, Singapore / Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Department of Infectious Disease. Singapore, Singapore.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Infectious Ophthalmology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
National University of Singapore. Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Singapore, Singapore / Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Singapore, Singapore / Tan Tock Seng Hospital. National Healthcare Group Eye Institute. Singapore, Singapore / Singapore Eye Research Institute. Singapore, Singapore / Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
Abstract
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic infection with some characteristics bearing resemblance to smallpox. Monkeypox was first isolated in Denmark in the late 1950s from a colony of laboratory monkeys used for polio virus research, and first identified as a cause of disease in humans in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The current outbreak could be related to the loss of vaccine-derived immunity following the discontinuation of routine smallpox vaccination, which offered previous cross-protection against monkeypox and reduced human-to-human transmission. In 2022, there was a new global outbreak of monkeypox infection, first reported in Europe in May 2022 . It has since spread to more than 50 countries across five regions, with more than 3000 cases of monkeypox infections being reported. On July 23, 2022, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of monkeypox as an international public health emergency.
Keywords in Portuguese
Varíola dos macacos
Doença ocular
Lesão ocular
 
Keywords
Monkeypox
Eye disease
Eye lesions
Expert review
Literature review
 
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Elsevier
Citation
FEYE,Yu Ci Ng et al. Monkeypox and ocular implications in humans. The Ocular Surface, n. 27, p. 13–15, 2023.
DOI
10.1016/j.jtos.2022.10.005
ISSN
1542-0124
Notes
Elsevier has created a Monkeypox Information Center in response to the declared public health emergency of international concern, with free information in English on the monkeypox virus. The Monkeypox Information Center is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its monkeypox related research that is available on the Monkeypox Information Center - including this research content - immediately available in publicly funded repositories, with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the Monkeypox Information Center remains active.