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