Here's what clinicians need to do if they suspect a patient has a case of monkeypox.
To get an accurate test result, health providers need to collect live cells, says Timothy Brewer, professor of medicine and epidemiology at UCLA.
“Monkeypox actually goes through a series of stages just like chickenpox. It starts out as a little bump, the medical term for that is papule. It then progresses to form a blister, then it forms a pustule, which is just a blister that’s got the white milky liquid, and then it sort of crusts and scabs and and and heals. You're infectious throughout that whole process,” Brewer said.
“So if you have some papules, and some blisters and some pustules, you want to make sure that you're, you're getting samples of each,” he said.Brewer says some cases may be missed if tests aren’t conducted correctly. The lesions typically concentrate on the arms and legs, but in the latest outbreak, they're showing up more frequently on the genital and perianal area, which Brewer says has raised some concerns monkeypox lesions may be confused with sexually transmitted disease.
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