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Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023
Research Letter

Retrospective Screening of Clinical Samples for Monkeypox Virus DNA, California, USA, 2022

Caitlin A. ContagComments to Author , Jacky Lu, Zachary T. Renfro, Abraar Karan, Jorge L. Salinas, Michelle Khan, Daniel Solis, Malaya K. Sahoo, Fumiko Yamamoto, and Benjamin A. Pinsky
Author affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

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Flowchart of retrospective quantitative PCR screening for MPXV in oropharyngeal and rectal swab samples submitted for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae testing, California, USA, 2022. Patients with known MPXV infection (n = 12) were diagnosed by quantitative PCR of cutaneous lesions. Patients without known mpox did not have MPXV-positive tests or cutaneous lesions at the time of specimen collection for C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae testing. MPXV, monkeypox virus.

Figure. Flowchart of retrospective quantitative PCR screening for MPXV in oropharyngeal and rectal swab samples submitted for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae testing, California, USA, 2022. Patients with known MPXV infection (n = 12) were diagnosed by quantitative PCR of cutaneous lesions. Patients without known mpox did not have MPXV-positive tests or cutaneous lesions at the time of specimen collection for C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae testing. MPXV, monkeypox virus.

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