Reactive Arthritis After mpox Vaccination

Indira Acharya; Lanaya W Smith; Chandralekha Banerjee; Lyn M Camire; Radhika Vij

doi:10.55729/2000-9666.1287

Reactive Arthritis After mpox Vaccination

J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. 2024 Jan 12;14(1):35-38. doi: 10.55729/2000-9666.1287. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Indira Acharya¹, Lanaya W Smith², Chandralekha Banerjee³, Lyn M Camire¹, Radhika Vij^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ Department of Infectious Disease, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.

Abstract

Autoimmune inflammatory reaction after vaccination is a rare clinical entity. Reactive arthritis has been described after various vaccinations, but not after mpox vaccination. Here we present a case of recently diagnosed reactive arthritis after mpox vaccination that presented in the context of unrelenting fever and diarrhea complicated by migratory arthritis and anterior uveitis. We have reported this case to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Keywords: Autoimmune reaction; Monkeypox; Reactive arthritis; Vaccine adverse event reporting system (VAERS); mpox vaccination.

Publication types

Case Reports