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SUBMITTER: Tomita N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10059741 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tomita Noriko N Morino Eriko E Terada-Hirashima Junko J Uemura Yukari Y Shimizu Yosuke Y Saito Sho S Suzuki Tetsuya T Okumura Nobumasa N Iwasaki Haruka H Ebihara Hideki H Shimojima Masayuki M Sugiura Wataru W Ohmagari Norio N Ujiie Mugen M
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20230314 3
Monkeypox (mpox) is an acute exanthematous disease caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV). Since May 2022, patients with mpox have been reported worldwide, mainly in Europe and the Americas. In Japan, LC16"KMB," which is a smallpox vaccine derived from a dried cell culture, against mpox, has been approved. Although inoculation with a smallpox vaccine has been recommended to prevent MPXV infection, the immunogenicity of the smallpox vaccine against the MPXV is unclear, and information regarding pos ...[more]