Monkeypox and the importance of cutaneous manifestations for disease suspicion

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

doi:10.54034/mic.e1450

Authors

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales Grupo de Investigación Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. Master of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientica del Sur, Lima, Peru. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-2192

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54034/mic.e1450

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