Report: A Pox Presenting Without Pox

Sex Transm Dis. 2022 Dec 1;49(12):855-857. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001700. Epub 2022 Sep 7.

Abstract

A man with virally suppressed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) presented with an erythematous, morbilliform rash without pustules in the setting of fever, fatigue, and myalgias after recent travel to Mexico and Puerto Rico. He was diagnosed with nonvariola orthopoxvirus (monkeypox) infection. This case report highlights an atypical presentation in the 2022 outbreak.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Exanthema*
  • Fever / epidemiology
  • Fever / etiology
  • HIV Infections* / complications
  • HIV Infections* / diagnosis
  • HIV Infections* / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mpox, Monkeypox* / diagnosis
  • Mpox, Monkeypox* / epidemiology