Evaluating the effectiveness of international travel controls to identify MPXV-infected travelers: a simulation study
Health screening and PCR testing at immigration are likely to miss a significant proportion of MPXV-infected travelers, thus a lengthy quarantine period would be required to prevent onward local transmission. Careful consideration on other factors such as economic costs and likelihood of widespread local outbreak will need to be weighed against the adoption of these measures to prevent local mpox transmission given MPXV transmissibility and severity.
Authors
- Hyeongki Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6507-0731)
- Borame Sue Lee Dickens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-1745)
- Conrad En Zuo Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5730-7095)
- Barnaby Edward Young (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1010-2230)
- Yong Dam Jeong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3970-7690)
- Hiroaki Murayama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7219-5981)
- Yun Shan Goh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2053-2859)
- David Chien Lye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0324-0205)
- Shihui Jin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0079-7390)
- Keisuke Ejima (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1185-3987)
- Shingo Iwami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1780-350X)
- Martin Tze‐Wei Chio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5440-6688)
- Jue Tao Lim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2245-0331)
- Marco Ajelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1753-4749)
- Po Ying Chia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-9527)
- Alex R. Cook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6271-5832)
- Yang Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7208-8238)
- Yuqian Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1592-1790)
- Akira Endo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6377-7296)
Institutions
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
- National Skin Centre (SG)
- Kyushu University (JP)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Tan Tock Seng Hospital (SG)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases (CN)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Duke-NUS Medical School (SG)
- Science Groove (Japan) (JP)
- National University Health System (SG)
- National Centre for Infectious Diseases (SG)
- Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital (CN)
- Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research (JP)
- Nagasaki University (JP)
- Pusan National University (KR)
- Nagoya University (JP)
- International University of Health and Welfare (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medicine
- Published
- 2025-08-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04286-6
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Poxvirus research and outbreaks
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.04
Funders
- Duke-NUS Medical School
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- National University of Singapore
- Ministry of Education - Singapore
- Pusan National University
- Southern University of Science and Technology
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology