A monkeypox virus infection mimicking primary syphilis.

Martina TurcoFabrizio R MancusoLuigi Pisano

Published in: The British journal of dermatology (2022)

Given the current monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak in at-risk men who have sex with men (MSM), clinicians should consider MPXV a differential diagnosis of syphilis, in any patient with a solitary painless genital nodule.

Keyphrases

men who have sex with men
hiv testing
hiv positive
case report
hepatitis c virus
rare case
human immunodeficiency virus