Monkeypox Virus Infection: Analysis and Detection
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 25930
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious diseases; emerging infectious diseases; viral infection; monkeypox; COVID-19; systematic review and meta-analysis
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2. Latin American networks on Monkeypox Virus research (LAMOVI), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
3. Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
4. Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima 4861, Peru
Interests: emerging infectious diseases; COVID-19; monkeypox virus
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The monkeypox outbreak is ongoing, and it has spread to non-endemic countries. More than sixty-two thousand people have been affected worldwide, although few mortalities have been reported. The WHO has declared the monkeypox virus as a global public health emergency of international concern. The monkeypox virus has been endemic in African countries for decades, but we still do not have a comprehensive understanding of it. In this context, we are launching this Special Issue in Vaccines (MDPI), and we welcome your valuable contributions in the form of impactful manuscripts focusing on the topic “Monkeypox Virus Infection: Analysis and Detection”.
PCR is the gold-standard technique for the detection of the monkeypox virus, but many countries lack testing facilities. To date, no point-of-care testing kits have been developed. Many countries have not imported their cases and have not improved their national laboratories for testing, analysis and detection.
With these issues in mind, we wish to focus to the topic “Monkeypox Virus Infection: Analysis and Detection”, and we encourage and welcome submissions of manuscripts regarding the following aspects:
- Perspectives and reviews regarding the monkeypox virus;
- Original or review articles regarding monkeypox virus infection: analysis and detection;
- Case reports or case series of monkeypox with typical or atypical presentation;
- Comparison of the different clinical samples of monkeypox-infected patients with different ct values;
- Development and improvement of new point-of-care techniques for the detection of the monkeypox virus;
- Comparisons of molecular and serological testing methods to detect monkeypox virus.
Dr. Ranjit Sah
Prof. Dr. Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- monkeypox virus
- public health emergency
- viral detection
- PCR
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