Fatal monkeypox in wild-living sooty mangabey, Côte d'Ivoire, 2012

We isolated a monkeypox virus from a wild-living monkey, a sooty mangabey, found dead in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, in March 2012. The whole-genome sequence obtained from this isolate and directly from clinical specimens showed its close relationship to monkeypox viruses from Western Afr...

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Published inEmerging infectious diseases Vol. 20; no. 6; p. 1009
Main Authors Radonić, Aleksandar, Metzger, Sonja, Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek, Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel, Schuenadel, Livia, Kurth, Andreas, Mätz-Rensing, Kerstin, Boesch, Christophe, Leendertz, Fabian H, Nitsche, Andreas
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.2014
Subjects
Animals
Animals, Newborn
Cercocebus atys - virology
Cote d'Ivoire
Fatal Outcome
Genome, Viral
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Monkeypox virus - classification
Monkeypox virus - genetics
Monkeypox virus - isolation & purification
Mpox (monkeypox) - virology
Phylogeny
Phylogeography
Cote d'Ivoire
zoonoses
viruses
Poxvirus
monkeypox virus
Taï National Park
Côte d’Ivoire
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ISSN1080-6059
1080-6059
DOI10.3201/eid2006.13-1329

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Summary:We isolated a monkeypox virus from a wild-living monkey, a sooty mangabey, found dead in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, in March 2012. The whole-genome sequence obtained from this isolate and directly from clinical specimens showed its close relationship to monkeypox viruses from Western Africa.
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ISSN:1080-6059
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2006.13-1329