Prevalence of Undiagnosed Monkeypox Virus Infections during Global Mpox Outbreak, United States, June–September 2022
Faisal S. Minhaj
, Vijay Singh, Stephanie E. Cohen, Michael B. Townsend, Hyman Scott, John Szumowski, C. Bradley Hare, Pallavi Upadhyay, Jairus Reddy, Barbara Alexander, Nicolle Baird, Terese Navarra, Lalita Priyamvada, Nhien Wynn, William C. Carson, Solomon Odafe, Sarah Anne J. Guagliardo, Emily Sims, Agam K. Rao, Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar, Paul J. Weidle
1, and Christina L. Hutson
1
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (F.S. Minhaj, M.B. Townsend, N. Baird, T. Navarra, L. Priyamvada, N. Wynn, W.C. Carson; S. Odafe, S.A.J. Guagliardo, E. Sims; A.K. Rao, P.S. Satheshkumar, P.J. Weidle, C.L. Hutson); HealthTrackRx, Denton, Texas, USA (V. Singh, P. Upadhyay, J. Reddy, B. Alexander); San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, USA (S.E. Cohen, H. Scott); University of California San Francisco and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco (J. Szumowski); Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco (C.B. Hare)
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Figure 1. Total numbers and percentages of positive results for specimens tested by monkeypox virus–specific PCR under different code categories from the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification, United States, June–September 2022. *Mpox add-on is defined as having an initial negative result from other testing, after which a provider requested testing for mpox.
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