Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2023)

Metagenomic Sequencing of Monkeypox Virus, Northern Mexico

  • Kame A. Galán-Huerta,
  • Manuel Paz-Infanzon,
  • Laura Nuzzolo-Shihadeh,
  • Alí F. Ruiz-Higareda,
  • Paola Bocanegra-Ibarias,
  • Daniel Z. Villareal-Martínez,
  • Fania Z. Muñoz-Garza,
  • Maria D. Guerrero-Putz,
  • Barbara Sáenz-Ibarra,
  • Oralia Barboza-Quintana,
  • Jorge Ocampo-Candiani,
  • Ana M. Rivas-Estilla,
  • Adrian Camacho-Ortiz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2902.221199
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 2
pp. 448 – 450

Abstract

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Monkeypox virus (MPXV) has gained interest because of a multicountry outbreak of mpox (formerly monkeypox) cases with no epidemiologic link to MPXV-endemic regions. We sequenced the complete genome of MPXV isolated from a patient in northern Mexico. Phylogenetic analysis grouped the virus with isolates from Germany.

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