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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024

Dispatch

Relapsed Mpox Keratitis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Cinthia Pi, Osasu Adah, Preetam A. Cholli, Roosecelis Martines, Getahun Abate, Lori Hainaut, Erich Seipel, T. Scott Isbell, Roddy Frankel, and Nongnooch PoowanawittayakomComments to Author 
Author affiliations: St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (C. Pi, O. Adah, G. Abate, L. Hainaut, E. Seipel, T.S. Isbell, R. Frankel, N. Poowanawittayakom); CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (P.A. Cholli, R. Martines)

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Figure 2

Right eye cornea histopathology from a 46-year-old patient in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with ocular mpox diagnosis. Sample was collected on day 217 after the patient initially sought care. A) Corneal epithelium is intact. Stromal lesion shows focal scarring with inflammation composed of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and rare neutrophils. B) Orthopoxvirus antigens detected by immunohistochemistry in area of stromal lesion.

Figure 2. Right eye cornea histopathology from a 46-year-old patient in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, with ocular mpox diagnosis. Sample was collected on day 217 after the patient initially sought care. A) Corneal epithelium is intact. Stromal lesion shows focal scarring with inflammation composed of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and rare neutrophils. B) Orthopoxvirus antigens detected by immunohistochemistry in area of stromal lesion.

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