Monkeypox virus containment: the application of ring vaccination and possible challenges

J Travel Med. 2022 Sep 17;29(6):taac085. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taac085.

Ranjit Sah^{1

2}, Abdelaziz Abdelaal^{2

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4}, Ankush Asija⁵, Soney Basnyat⁶, Yub Raj Sedhai⁷, Sadikshya Ghimire⁸, Sanjit Sah⁹, D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana^{10

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13}, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales^{10

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14}

¹ Department of Microbiology, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.
² Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
³ Boston University, Massachusetts, MA 02215, USA.
⁴ Tanta University Hospitals, Tanta 31516, Egypt.
⁵ School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, WV 26506, USA.
⁶ Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Virginia, VA 23298, USA.
⁷ University of Kentucky, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA.
⁸ Shree Birendra Sainik Hospital, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal.
⁹ SR Sanjeevani Hospital, Kalyanpur, Siraha 56517, Nepal.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda 660003, Colombia.
¹¹ Latin American Network on Monkeypox Virus Research (LAMOVI), Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
¹² Institución Universitaria Visión de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda 660001, Colombia.
¹³ Faculty of Medicine, Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda 660003, Colombia.
¹⁴ Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima 4861, Peru.

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Keywords: Monkeypox; ring vaccination.

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