Retrospective monkeypox virus (MPXV) surveillance among male users of I Want The Kit in Maryland, United States.

Yukari C Manabe Justin HardickKatherine UhtegNisha RamdeepGretchen ArmingtonHeba H MostafaMatthew M Hamill

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)

Retrospective surveillance leveraging male rectal swab sample remnants from I Want The Kit from July 2021 through October 2023, identified one symptomatic and one asymptomatic mpox case at the peak of transmission in 2022. Although sporadic cases continue to be reported in Maryland, additional asymptomatic cases were not identified in this leveraged surveillance.

Keyphrases

public health
cross sectional
late onset
rectal cancer
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis