Severe mpox in patients with advanced AIDS: long-term disease and fatal outcome

ABSTRACT Herein, we report two cases of severe mpox in patients with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome from Brazil who developed atypical lesions and prolonged illness, one of whom had a fatal outcome. Both patients experienced serious complications involving the perianal and genital regio...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Luís Arthur Brasil Gadelha Farias, Pablo Eliack Linhares de Holanda, Ana Danielle Tavares da Silva, Karene Ferreira Cavalcante, Marina Catunda Pinheiro Jucá, Lauro Vieira Perdigão Neto, Lisandra Serra Damasceno
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2023
Subjects:
Mpox
HIV
Immunosuppression
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0228-2023
https://doaj.org/article/5b029ddbb70449b697bae1c95b18dc61
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Summary:ABSTRACT Herein, we report two cases of severe mpox in patients with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome from Brazil who developed atypical lesions and prolonged illness, one of whom had a fatal outcome. Both patients experienced serious complications involving the perianal and genital regions and prolonged disease with persistent viremia.

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