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A Human Infection Caused by Monkeypox Virus in Basankusu Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Overview
Journal Bull World Health Organ
Specialty Public Health
Date 1972 Jan 1
PMID 4340218
Citations 382
Authors
I D Ladnyj
P Ziegler
E Kima
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Abstract

This paper presents clinical and epidemiological information on a patient with smallpox-like disease, from whom a monkeypox-like virus was isolated. The patient was the first recognized human monkeypox case in medical history.

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