A female patient with atopic dermatitis who had recently received a tattoo presented with severe right ear pain and several vesiculopustular lesions. Over 1 week, she developed approximately 80 widely distributed lesions. Laboratory testing confirmed mpox (previously monkeypox) virus, and no further lesions developed after initiation of oral tecovirimat.
Keywords: atopic dermatitis; eczema; monkeypox; orthopoxvirus.
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023.