Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007
Dispatch
Endemic Human Monkeypox, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2001–2004
Table 1
Specimen (no. patients) | MPX virus isolated | PCR result |
|
---|---|---|---|
Orthopoxvirus | VZV | ||
Crusts (50) | 16 | 18 | 21 |
Vesicle fluid (51) | 19 | 21 | 24 |
Crusts and vesicle fluid (35) | 8 and 5† | 13‡ | 17‡ |
Total (136) | 48 | 52 | 62 |
*MPX, monkeypox; VZV, varicella-zoster virus.
†Virus was isolated from both specimens from 8 patients and from either specimen from 5 patients.
‡Both specimens were positive by PCR.
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