Scientific Study
Evidence of surface contamination in hospital rooms ccupied by patients infected with monkeypox, Germany, June 2022
D. Nörz, S. Pfefferle, T. T. Brehm, G. Franke, I. Grewe, B. Knobling, M. Aepfelbacher, S. Huber, E. M. Klupp, S. Jordan, M. M. Addo, J. Schulze zur Wiesch, S. Schmiedel, M. Lütgehetmann, J. K. Knobloch
Scientific study
Human Monkeypox Experience in a Tertiary Level Hospital in Milan, Italy, between May and October 2022: Epidemiological Features and Clinical Characteristics
Caterina Candela et al
Scientific study
Evaluation of 5 Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays for the Detection of Mpox Virus
et al.
Scientific study
Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of Xpert® Mpox and STANDARD™ M10 MPX/OPX for the detection of monkeypox virus
Alessandra Romero-Ramirez et al.
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How to collect and transport Monkeypox samples?
Since May 2022, the number of monkeypox cases are constantly rising. As a result, WHO declared monkeypox a public health emergency and released interim guidelines and information about the virus. Discover here which of Copan’s products are suitable for monkeypox sample collection.

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Microbiology Time – September 2022
Happy September, Microbiology Time readers! We spent August selecting the best papers featuring our products. This month the topics are heterogeneous and meet all tastes: a saliva-based SARS-CoV-2 screening, olfactory swabbing for alpha-synuclein detection in Parkinson’s patients, and a study on surface contamination by monkeypox.

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Microbiology Time – April 2023
Our April Microbiology Time includes a study on SARS-CoV-2 detection in cadavers, a German investigation of respiratory infections in hospitalized children, and an analysis of demographics, symptoms, and outcomes of individuals diagnosed with monkeypox in an Italian hospital.

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Microbiology Time – September 2024
In this month’s selected papers, we explored different features of two outbreaks, Candida Auris and Monkeypox, and we discussed the culture methods of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from tongue swabs.

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Microbiology Time – February 2025
In the second Microbiology Time of 2025, a comparison of two Point-of-Care assays for the monkeypox virus detection, an investigation on tongue swabbing and tuberculosis, and a review on Parkinson’s Disease early diagnosis.
