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. 1972;46(5):593–597.

A human infection caused by monkeypox virus in Basankusu Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo*

I D Ladnyj, P Ziegler, E Kima
PMCID: PMC2480792  PMID: 4340218

Abstract

This paper presents clinical and epidemiological information on a patient with smallpox-like disease, from whom a monkeypox-like virus was isolated. The patient was the first recognized human monkeypox case in medical history.

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