Thursday, May 19, 2022

Mpox (MPXV, Monkeypox)

List of clinical and official resources, including point of care resources.

Revised and updated 22nd June 2023 


Point of care resources

Wolters Kluwer free content, including UpToDate, a few journal articles, and drug information from LexiComp.  

DynaMed entry on orthopoxvirus infections, free access

BMJ Best Practice entry on poxvirus, NHS Athens or subscription needed


Genetic sequence data

Entry in NCBI Taxonomy dataset, with links to information in the NCBI MPXV Data Hub (click "Browse all genomes in NCBI Virus", and data in other NCBI data sets.

MPXV data on virological.org (more here about the forum itself). 


Current literature

A search of PubMed for items (includes case reports and news items, as well as research - results are sorted by date)


Clinical and disease outbreak resources

NHS Health A-Z

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency  - CAS Alert - immediate actions in response to cases in the UK with no known travel history

Royal College of Emergency Medicine - Diagnosis of monkeypox in the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS)

Royal College of Nursing  - podcast on how nurses can spot and treat it, and protect themselves.

UK Health Security Agency Monkeypox outbreak: epidemiological overview

UK Health Security Agency  - background information

UK Health Security Agency HAIRS risk assessment (risk that mammalian pets exposed to the virus present to the human population)

UK Health Security Agency - information on the status of monkeypox as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID)


Worldwide information (=outside the UK, so mainland Europe, USA, WHO, global)

WHO Mpox page  - includes disease outbreak outputs and details of which countries have reported cases.

WHO general fact sheet 

WHO - interim guidance on laboratory testing for the virus

For current case data, try ProMED (search mpox for newer reports, monkeypox for older ones).

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 

European Center for Disease Prevention and Control - includes fact sheet for health professionals, links to news items and to communicable disease reports.

MedlinePlus resource page (links to US resources)

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