TY - JOUR AU - Erez, Noam AU - Achdout, Hagit AU - Milrot, Elad AU - Schwartz, Yuval AU - Wiener-Well, Yonit AU - Paran, Nir AU - Politi, Boaz AU - Tamir, Hadas AU - Israely, Tomer AU - Weiss, Shay AU - Beth-Din, Adi AU - Shifman, Ohad AU - Israeli, Ofir AU - Yitzhaki, Shmuel AU - Shapira, Shmuel AU - Melamed, Sharon AU - Schwartz, Eli T1 - Diagnosis of Imported Monkeypox, Israel, 2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 5 SP - 980 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a case of monkeypox in a man who returned from Nigeria to Israel in 2018. Virus was detected in pustule swabs by transmission electron microscopy and PCR and confirmed by immunofluorescence assay, tissue culture, and ELISA. The West Africa monkeypox outbreak calls for increased awareness by public health authorities worldwide. KW - Monkeypox KW - Africa KW - outbreak KW - monkeypox virus KW - orthopoxvirus KW - transmission electron microscopy KW - zoonoses KW - disease outbreaks KW - viruses KW - Israel KW - West Africa KW - mpox DO - 10.3201/eid2505.190076 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/5/19-0076_article ER - End of Reference