A monkeypox virus infection mimicking primary syphilis.

Turco, Martina; Mancuso, Fabrizio R; Pisano, Luigi · Br J Dermatol · 2022

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Given the current monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak in at-risk men who have sex with men (MSM), clinicians should consider MPXV a differential diagnosis of syphilis, in any patient with a solitary painless genital nodule.

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