
Monkeypox: A Laboratory Medicine Perspective
Lab Medicine Rounds
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How Can Laboratory Medicine Professionals Really Bring Value to Our Clinical Colleagues?
With monkeypox infection, it is not a diagnosis that most clinicians can make based on how the patient presents alone. So laboratory professionals play a key role in this process because without the testing, it's really difficult to confirm someone has monkeypox virus infection. There is some therapy that can be given as well as post-exposure vaccination to monkeypox.
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