학술논문

Isolated Ocular Mpox without Skin Lesions, United States.
Document Type
article
Source
Emerging Infectious Diseases. 29(6)
Subject
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Ophthalmology and Optometry
HIV/AIDS
Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision
Infectious Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Clinical Research
Eye
Infection
Face
Humans
RNA
Viral
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Middle Aged
United States
Prodromal Symptoms
Mpox (monkeypox)
California
eye infection
monkeypox virus
mpox
orthoviruses
viruses
Clinical Sciences
Medical Microbiology
Public Health and Health Services
Microbiology
Clinical sciences
Epidemiology
Health services and systems
Language
Abstract
We report a case of a 53-year-old HIV-negative patient in San Francisco, California, USA, with no classic mpox prodromal symptoms or skin lesions who experienced fulminant, vision-threatening scleritis, keratitis, and uveitis. Deep sequence analysis identified monkeypox virus RNA in the aqueous humor. We confirmed the virus on the cornea and sclera by PCR.