Monkeypox: are we facing a pandemic risk?. Story of an old acquaintance
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Monkeypox is a zoonosis of viral etiology caused by monkeypox virus or Monkeypox virus (MPXV). MPXV is a double-stranded DNA virus of the Poxviridae family, to which the Variola virus belongs, the etiological agent of smallpox, a disease proclaimed eradicated in 1980Downloads
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