Fig 1.
Barcelona Public Health Agency 2022 MPOX notification system.
Source: Authors, according to guidelines from the Spanish Ministry of Health (14).
Fig 2.
Epicurve of the weekly MPOX notified cases in the city of Barcelona from May 20, 2022, to May 20, 2023.
Source: The compulsory MPOX notifications, collected by the authors from the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB) from the Catalonia Epidemiological Surveillance Network.
Table 1.
Sociodemographic and epidemiological characteristics by sex, of the confirmed MPOX cases in Barcelona (May 2022-May 2023).
Table 2.
Clinical characteristics and complications of the confirmed MPOX cases, by sex.
Barcelona, 5/2022-5/2023.
Table 3.
Description of 27 cases requiring hospitalization in Barcelona.
MPOX outbreak 5/2022-5/2023.
Fig 3.
Geolocation of confirmed cases during the first MPOX outbreak in Barcelona (5/2022-5/2023).
Fig 3a shows the total number of cases by BHA(a) while Fig 3b presents the percentage of cases by BHA residents. Maps were created with QGIS Geographic Information System version 3.4.8-Madeira, and all content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 license (CC BY–SA), available at (https://qgis.org). In addition, geographical materials used for creating the map (e.g., shape file) were supported by Carto BCN from the Open data BCN project, Barcelona City Council and MPOX data from the Epidemiology service registers. The authors specify that this figure is licensed under CC BY 4.0. (a) BHA: Basic Health Area.
Fig 4.
Forest plot of the crude and adjusted prevalence ratios (with confidence interval of 95%) of the characteristics of the confirmed cases in GBMSMa in the first MPOX outbreak in Barcelona (5/2022-5/2023).
(a) GBMSM: gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. The variable was compared with cases occurring in women or men who only has sex with women. Those men who reported not having sex with men or women were excluded from the analyses. (b) Sex venues included saunas, sex clubs, parties, or cruising spots. (c) Clinical characteristics were excluded from final models due to the absence of an adjusted association or their inclusion as adjusting variables.