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  1. A note on an epidemic of smallpox in Brunei in 1904
    Sheppard WS
    Journal of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association, 1904.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  2. Treatment of small pox by tincture of iodine
    Newell AG
    Malaya Medical Journal, 1912;10:35-6.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  3. Smallpox in North Kedah (1946-47)
    CHAKRAVARTHY S
    Med J Malaya, 1958 Mar;12(3):515-30.
    PMID: 13565023
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/epidemiology*
  4. Fulltext Comprehensive literature review of monkeypox
    Hatmal MM, Al-Hatamleh MAI, Olaimat AN, Ahmad S, Hasan H, Ahmad Suhaimi NA, et al.
    Emerg Microbes Infect, 2022 Dec;11(1):2600-2631.
    PMID: 36263798 DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2022.2132882
    The current outbreak of monkeypox (MPX) infection has emerged as a global matter of concern in the last few months. MPX is a zoonosis caused by the MPX virus (MPXV), which is one of the Orthopoxvirus species. Thus, it is similar to smallpox caused by the variola virus, and smallpox vaccines and drugs have been shown to be protective against MPX. Although MPX is not a new disease and is rarely fatal, the current multi-country MPX outbreak is unusual because it is occurring in countries that are not endemic for MPXV. In this work, we reviewed the extensive literature available on MPXV to summarize the available data on the major biological, clinical and epidemiological aspects of the virus and the important scientific findings. This review may be helpful in raising awareness of MPXV transmission, symptoms and signs, prevention and protective measures. It may also be of interest as a basis for performance of studies to further understand MPXV, with the goal of combating the current outbreak and boosting healthcare services and hygiene practices.Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02977715..Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03745131..Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00728689..Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02080767..
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox*
  5. Eternal vigilance is the price
    Med J Malaysia, 1979 Sep;34(1):1-2.
    PMID: 542142
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/epidemiology; Smallpox/prevention & control*
  6. Freeze-dried smallpox vaccine; report of a trial in Kuala Lumpur
    Maitland HB
    Med J Malaya, 1965 Sep;20(1):8-10.
    PMID: 4221441
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/immunology*; Smallpox Vaccine*
  7. The history of medicine. Part II
    Hoops AL
    Malayan Medical Journal, 1930;5:1-7.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  8. Accidental vaccinia infection - a case report
    Lam KL, How VJ, Lam SK
    Med J Malaysia, 1975 Mar;30(3):227-30.
    PMID: 1160684
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox Vaccine/adverse effects*
  9. Fulltext Assessing disparities in medical students' knowledge and attitude about monkeypox: a cross-sectional study of 27 countries across three continents
    Abd ElHafeez S, Gebreal A, Khalil MA, Youssef N, Sallam M, Elshabrawy A, et al.
    Front Public Health, 2023;11:1192542.
    PMID: 37575128 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1192542
    BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The recent monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores the importance of evaluating the knowledge and attitude of medical students toward emerging diseases, given their potential roles as healthcare professionals and sources of public information during outbreaks. This study aimed to assess medical students' knowledge and attitude about Mpox and to identify factors affecting their level of knowledge and attitude in low-income and high-income countries.

    METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 11,919 medical students from 27 countries. A newly-developed validated questionnaire was used to collect data on knowledge (14 items), attitude (12 items), and baseline criteria. The relationship between a range of factors with knowledge and attitude was studied using univariate and multivariate analyses.

    RESULTS: 46% of the study participants were males; 10.7% were in their sixth year; 54.6% knew about smallpox; 84% received the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine; and 12.5% had training on Mpox. 55.3% had good knowledge of Mpox and 51.7% had a positive attitude towards it. Medical students in their third, fifth, or sixth year high- income countries who obtained information on Mpox from friends, research articles, social media and scientific websites were positive predictors for good knowledge. Conversely, being male or coming from high-income countries showed a negative relation with good knowledge about Mpox. Additionally, a positive attitude was directly influenced by residing in urban areas, being in the fifth year of medical education, having knowledge about smallpox and a history of receiving the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. Receiving information about Mpox from social media or scientific websites and possessing good knowledge about Mpox were also predictors of a positive attitude. On the other hand, being male, employed, or receiving a training program about Mpox were inversely predicting positive attitude about Mpox.

    CONCLUSION: There were differences in knowledge and attitude towards Mpox between medical students in low and high-income countries, emphasizing the need for incorporating epidemiology of re-emerging diseases like Mpox into the medical curriculum to improve disease prevention and control.

    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox*
  10. The laboratory diagnosis of small-pox
    Kingsbury AN
    Malayan Medical Journal, 1932;7:88-89.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  11. The early immunisation of infants in Malaysia
    Chen ST, Choong MM
    Med J Malaya, 1971 Sep;26(1):15-9.
    PMID: 4258569
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/prevention & control*; Smallpox Vaccine*
  12. Some notes on infectious diseases in Singapore
    Gilmour CCB
    Malayan Medical Journal, 1935;10:9-13.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  13. A rare pitfall in the diagnosis of smallpox
    O'Connor M
    Journal of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association, 1937;1:113-15.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  14. The effect of early BCG and smallpox immunization on serum bilirubin levels in the newborn
    Sinniah D, Nagalingam I, Chua CP, Khoo KP, Dugdale AE
    Clin Pediatr (Phila), 1974 Sep;13(9):765-6.
    PMID: 4429633 DOI: 10.1177/000992287401300913
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/prevention & control*
  15. Cutaneous immune reaction: its usefulness in the evaluation of small-pox immunity in dark races
    Doraisingham M
    Journal of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association, 1940;4:314-18.
    1. Observations made on groups of light and dark skinned individuals indicate that the percentage of dark skinned people who can be recognized as immune by their reaction to vaccination is considerably lower than in the case of people with a lesser skin pigmentation.
    2. It is suggested that the reading of "immune reaction" is influenced considerably by the intensity of skin pigment found in the individual.
    3. It would appear that while the usefulness of immune reaction readings in light-skinned peope is very great, its value is limited when applied to those with dark skins.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox; Smallpox Vaccine
  16. Smallpox vaccination: complications and present role
    Balasundram R
    Med J Malaya, 1972 Dec;27(2):89-94.
    PMID: 4145716
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/prevention & control; Smallpox Vaccine/adverse effects*
  17. Colonial Medical Reports.—No. 67.—Federated Malay States. Medical report for the year 1914.
    Sansom CL
    J Trop Med Hyg, 1916;19:69-86.
    Contents:
    Vital statistics
    Principal causes of death
    Return op diseases and deaths, 1914 in the Hospitals in Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang
    Smallpox
    Veneral diseases
    Quarantine station, Port Swettenham
    Estates
    Veterinary
    Quarantine stations
    Metereology
    General
    Perak
    Malaria advisor board
    Institute for Medical Research
    Malaria board bureau, Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S., March 1, 1915. By C. Strickland, Travelling Medical Entomologist, F.M.S.
    An outbreak of fever at Morib in the Federated Malay States
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  18. [Results of examining wild monkeys for the presence of smallpox antibodies and smallpox group viruses]
    Marennikova SS, Shelukhina EM, Shenkman LS, Mal'tseva NN, Matsevich GR
    Vopr. Virusol., 1975 May-Jun.
    PMID: 169629
    The results of examinations of sera, blood and organs of different species of monkeys from some Asian and African countries for the presence of antibody to smallpox and viruses of the smallpox group. Significant titers of smallpox antibodies (antihemagglutinins virus-neutralizing and, in some cases, precipitating antibody) were found in a considerable number of monkeys shot near foci with human cases (Equatorial province of Zair Republic). In the same monkeys kidney tissues yielded 3 isolates of smallpox virus group two of which were indistinguishable in the laboratory tests from variola virus. On the basis of these data it is concluded that smallpox viruses circulate among wildlife monkeys in some areas of Equatorial Africa. Further studies along these lines are necessary.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox/diagnosis; Smallpox/veterinary*
  19. A brief review of fifty years of medical history in Selangor, Federation of Malaya
    Milne JJC
    Med J Malaya, 1948;2:161-73.
    This is an interesting piece of Colonial history, compiled, one presumes, from official reports. It cannot satisfactorily be summarized. The author deals with his subject under various heads: hospitals, health legislation, dangerous infectious diseases, prevailing diseases, beriberi, fever and malaria, dysentery, and diarrhoea, influenza and enteric fever. In a table are given the numbers of cases of smallpox, cholera, plague, beriberi, dysentery, diarfhoea and fevers reported each year from 1890 to 1939. The only one of these to show steady reduction is beriberi, which began to decline from figures over 2,000 per annum before the 1914-18 war to 69-444 per annum from 1930 to 1939. Plague was never common and neither cholera nor smallpox was responsible for large numbers of cases. The author does not give any systematic accounts of the outstanding investigations made during the period, but rather quotes opinions expressed by Government servants, medical or lay, in their reports. Charles Wilcocks.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
  20. Notes on smallpox
    Blakemore WL
    Malayan Medical Journal, 1932;7:94-5.
    Matched MeSH terms: Smallpox
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