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# Monkeypox

Therapeutic area

Infectious Disease

Rare disease

No

## Definition and classification

**Definition**

An infection that is caused by an Orthopoxvirus, which is transmitted by primates or rodents, and which is characterized by a prodromal syndrome of fever, chills, headache, myalgia, and lymphedema; initial symptoms are followed by a generalized papular rash that typically progresses from vesiculation through crusting over the course of two weeks.

**Genetic basis**

No

**Non-human condition**

No

**Rare disease**

No

**Listing at source**

Listed

**Condition name**

Monkeypox

**Therapeutic area**

Infectious Disease

### Alternative names (6)

- monkeypox
- Monkeypox (Mpox)
- Monkeypox virus infection
- Mpox (Monkeypox)
- Mpox, Monkeypox
- infections, Monkeypox virus

## Clinical profile

**Disease mechanisms**

- Acquired

Sources for recorded values

Source: [monarchinitiative.org](https://monarchinitiative.org/MONDO:0002594)

**All therapeutic areas**

- Infectious Disease

Sources for recorded values

Source: [monarchinitiative.org](https://monarchinitiative.org/MONDO:0002594)

**Severity**

Severe

## Identifiers

**MONDO ID**

MONDO:0002594

Source: [monarchinitiative.org](https://monarchinitiative.org/MONDO:0002594)

**Parent condition**

MONDO:0100329

## Related records

### Broader conditions (7)

- Disease
- Disease by etiologic mechanism
- Disease of primarily extrinsic mechanism
- Human disease
- [Infectious disease](https://trialight.com/data/condition/infectious-disease-dadc2591-65fc-5842-b510-cfbc295d8093.md)
- Primary viral infectious disease
- [Viral infectious disease](https://trialight.com/data/condition/viral-infectious-disease-43db42a3-adad-5b9d-b74c-f17df0674c21.md)

### Trials (73)

- A Clinical Study Investigating the Safety and Immune Responses After Immunization With Investigational Monkeypox Vaccines
- A One Health Study of Monkeypox Human Infection
- A Phase 2 Randomized Multisite Trial to Inform Public Health Strategies Involving the Use of MVA-BN Vaccine for Mpox
- A Randomized Clinical Trial Investigating the Safety, Reactogenicity, and Immunogenicity After Immunization With an mRNA-based Mpox Vaccine Candidate in Africa
- A Study Evaluating the Safety and Immunogenicity of MVA Strain Monkeypox Attenuated Live Vaccine
- A Study to Investigate The Safety, Tolerability, And Immune Response of a Range of Doses of mRNA-1769 Compared With Placebo in Healthy Participants From ≥18 Years of Age to <50 Years of Age
- An Immunogenicity and Safety Trial of MVA-BN in Adults Living With HIV for the Prevention of Mpox Infection, in Kinshasa, DRC
- Assessing the Preparedness and Knowledge of Pharmacists in the Current Monkeypox Outbreak
- Assessment of Immune Memory - Humoral and Cellular - in mPOX-infected Patients : an Ancillary Study of the ANRS0258s MOSAIC Cohort
- Assessment of Safety Profile of MVA-BN Vaccine in the PALM-007 Study in DRC
- Assessment of the Efficacy and Safety of Tecovirimat in Patients With Monkeypox Virus Disease
- Break-through Infection Following Mpox vaccinatIon
- Characterization of Vaccine-induced Responses Against Monkeypox (MoVIHvax) An Observational Prospective Cohort Study
- Clinical and Biological Aspects of the MONKEYPOX Disease
- Clinical, Virological, Immunological, Psychosocial and Epidemiological Consequences of Human Monkeypox Virus (ProMPX)
- Cohort Study of Healthcare Workers Receiving Imvanex®
- [Comparability Trial of the MVA-BN Vaccine Manufactured in Different Production Cells](https://trialight.com/data/trial/comparability-trial-of-the-mva-bn-vaccine-manufactured-in-84b8bd0f-f90f-47ed-9a46-8c80df7c5376.md)
- DiagRaMIE Mpox Virus-RDC for the Diagnostic of Monkeypox
- Efficacy and Acceptability of a Monkeypox Curriculum for Disproportionately Impacted Communities
- Efficacy/Effectiveness, Safety, and Immunogenicity of LC16m8 Mpox Vaccine in Colombia

### Approved drugs (2)

- Tecovirimat monohydrate
- Vaccinia virus, live modified

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