Stability of Monkeypox Virus in Body Fluids and Wastewater (NEW 10/10, Website, Article)CDC / Emerging Infectious Diseases
18 September 2023
Yinda C, Morris DH, Fischer RJ, et al.
The findings suggest that, because virus stability is sufficient to support environmental MPXV transmission in healthcare settings, exposure and dose-response will be limiting factors for those transmission routes
Monkeypox DNA levels correlate with virus infectivity in clinical samples, Israel, 2022 (Website)Eurosurveillance
Paran N, et al.
In this study, the authors test for a correlation between MPXV DNA copies in patient specimens.
Evidence of surface contamination in hospital rooms occupied by patients infected with monkeypox, Germany, June 2022 (Website)Eurosourveillance
Dominik N.
We systematically examined surfaces of two hospital rooms occupied by monkeypox patients and the adjacent anterooms, which are used for donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE), for monkeypox virus contamination using PCR. In addition, we assessed the infectivity on cell culture of the collected samples by virus isolation.
Inactivation of orthopoxvirus for diagnostic PCR analysis (Website) Journal of Virological Methods
23 September 2021
Vinner L, et al.
Diagnoses of ongoing viral infections commonly rely on PCR methodology.
Infection-competent monkeypox virus contamination identified in domestic settings following an imported case of monkeypox into the UK (Website)medRxiv
Atkinson B, et al.
This report confirms the potential for infection-competent monkeypox virus to be recovered in environmental settings associated with known positive cases and the necessity for rapid environmental assessment to reduce potential exposure to close contacts and the general public.
Monkeypox genomic surveillance will challenge lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2 (Website)Lancet
2 July 2022
Pfaff F, Hofmann D, Beer M.
Circulating monkeypox virus might be undergoing adaption for the human host, so we must keep its genetic changes under tight surveillance so as to be prepared when sudden epidemiological changes and prevent the emergence of a variola virus epigone.
Monkeypox may have undergone 'accelerated evolution,' scientists say (Website)Live Science
25 June 2022
The monkeypox virus has mutated at a far faster rate than would normally be expected and likely underwent a period of “accelerated evolution,”a new study suggests.
Monkeypox Outbreak — Nine States, May 2022 (Website)CDC/MMWR
3 June 2022
Minhaj FS, Ogale YP, Whitehill F, et al.
Rapid Bedside Inactivation of Ebola Virus for Safe Nucleic Acid Tests (Website) Journal of Clinical Microbiology
23 September 2021
Methods for inactivating EBOV