Bacterial Pneumonia and Cryptogenic Pleuritis After Probable Monkeypox Virus Infection: A Case Report

Overview

Journal Infect Dis Rep

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2023 Dec 22

PMID 38131884

Authors

Hubert Dawid Cieplucha

Mateusz Bozejko

Pawel Piesiak

Sylwia Serafinska

Bartosz Szetela

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Abstract

A large number of monkeypox (MPOX) cases have been reported in Europe and North America in 2022, and a new outbreak of this disease was declared. We describe a case of a patient with probable monkeypox during the height of this epidemic in Poland. The patient's symptoms resolved within two weeks, but over the next two months, he developed community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization and, subsequently, non-specific pleuritis. The simultaneous occurrence of such severe infections in a previously healthy young man is not typical and suggests a potential underlying cause. We believe the potential association of these diseases with probable monkeypox virus infection is very likely. Cases of monkeypox pneumonia, both viral and secondary bacterial, have already been reported in the literature. Cases of viral pleuritis in the course of MPOX in animals have also been described; however, to our knowledge, no similar cases have been described in humans to date. Our case indicates that it is important to monitor patients after MPOX in order to respond promptly to potentially life-threatening but, as of yet, not fully understood complications.

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