Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2014)

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

  • Aleksandar Radonić,
  • Sonja Metzger,
  • Piotr Wojtek Dabrowski,
  • Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann,
  • Livia Schuenadel,
  • Andreas Kurth,
  • Kerstin Mätz-Rensing,
  • Christophe Boesch,
  • Fabian H. Leendertz,
  • Andreas Nitsche

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2006.131329
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 6
pp. 1009 – 1011

Abstract

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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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