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Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023
Synopsis

Congenital Mpox Syndrome (Clade I) in Stillborn Fetus after Placental Infection and Intrauterine Transmission, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008

David A. Schwartz1Comments to Author , Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, Kerry Patterson, John W. Huggins, and Phillip R. Pittman1
Author affiliations: Perinatal Pathology Consulting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D.A. Schwartz); Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (P. Mbala-Kingebeni); US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA (K. Patterson, J.W. Hudgins, P.R. Pittman)

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Figure 3

Immunohistochemistry of placenta from a stillborn fetus after placental monkeypox infection and intrauterine transmission, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008. Microscopic findings show diffuse and intense positive staining for orthopoxvirus antigen in Hofbauer cells in the chorionic villi. Immunohistochemistry with antibody to vaccinIa virus counterstained with hematoxylin and eosin. Original magnification ×10.

Figure 3. Immunohistochemistry of placenta from a stillborn fetus after placental monkeypox infection and intrauterine transmission, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008. Microscopic findings show diffuse and intense positive staining for orthopoxvirus antigen in Hofbauer cells in the chorionic villi. Immunohistochemistry with antibody to vaccinIa virus counterstained with hematoxylin and eosin. Original magnification ×10.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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