Fatal Monkeypox in Wild-Living Sooty Mangabey, Côte d’Ivoire, 2012

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 Africa....

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Main Authors: Aleksandar Radonić, Sonja Metzger, Piotr Wojtek Dabrowski, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Livia Schuenadel, Andreas Kurth, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Christophe Boesch, Fabian H. Leendertz, Andreas Nitsche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Poxvirus
monkeypox virus
zoonoses
Taï National Park
viruses
Côte d’Ivoire
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/6/13-1329_article

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