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Mpox and chickenpox were confirmed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Of 94 (60.0%) suspected cases, 56 had confirmed mpox, of whom 16 (28.6%) had chickenpox coinfection. The median age of confirmed mpox cases was 29 years (interquartile range, 20\u201337 years), 24 were men (60.7%), 6 (10.7%) were bisexual, and 5 (8.9%) died. Mpox-chickenpox\u2013coinfected patients had more complications than mpox-monoinfected cases (56.3% vs 22.5%, P = .015).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The high frequency of mpox-chickenpox coinfection argues for accelerated access to mpox and chickenpox vaccines in Africa.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/infdis\/jiad556","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,7]],"date-time":"2023-12-07T06:53:56Z","timestamp":1701932036000},"page":"S260-S264","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Mpox and Chickenpox Coinfection: Case Series From Southern Nigeria"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"229","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6966-779X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Juliet I","family":"Mmerem","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching 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