TY - JOUR
KW - Humans
KW - United States
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction
KW - Monkeypox
KW - Face
KW - Prodromal Symptoms
KW - RNA, Viral
AU - Minh Nguyen
AU - Akshay Mentreddy
AU - Julie Schallhorn
AU - Matilda Chan
AU - Su Aung
AU - Sarah Doernberg
AU - Jennifer Babik
AU - Kevin Miles
AU - Katherine Yang
AU - Emily Lydon
AU - Daniel Minter
AU - John Gonzales
AU - Jessica Shantha
AU - Thuy Doan
AU - Gerami Seitzman
AB - <p>We report a case of a 53-year-old HIV-negative patient in San Francisco, California, USA, with no classic mpox prodromal symptoms or skin lesions who experienced fulminant, vision-threatening scleritis, keratitis, and uveitis. Deep sequence analysis identified monkeypox virus RNA in the aqueous humor. We confirmed the virus on the cornea and sclera by PCR.</p>
BT - Emerg Infect Dis
DA - 2023 Jun
DO - 10.3201/eid2906.230032
IS - 6
J2 - Emerg Infect Dis
LA - eng
N2 - <p>We report a case of a 53-year-old HIV-negative patient in San Francisco, California, USA, with no classic mpox prodromal symptoms or skin lesions who experienced fulminant, vision-threatening scleritis, keratitis, and uveitis. Deep sequence analysis identified monkeypox virus RNA in the aqueous humor. We confirmed the virus on the cornea and sclera by PCR.</p>
PY - 2023
SP - 1285
EP - 1288
T2 - Emerg Infect Dis
TI - Isolated Ocular Mpox without Skin Lesions, United States.
VL - 29
SN - 1080-6059
ER -