Monkeypox virus phylogenetic similarities between a human case detected in Cameroon in 2018 and the 2017-2018 outbreak in Nigeria.

Autor: Sadeuh-Mba SA; Virology Service, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon., Yonga MG; Virology Service, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon., Els M; Cameroon Field Epidemiology Training Program, Yaounde, Cameroon., Batejat C; Cellule d'Intervention Biologique d'Urgence, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France., Eyangoh S; Virology Service, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon., Caro V; Cellule d'Intervention Biologique d'Urgence, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France., Etoundi A; Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladie, les Epidémies et les Pandémies, Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon., Carniel E; Virology Service, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon., Njouom R; Virology Service, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon. Electronic address: njouom@pasteur-yaounde.org.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases [Infect Genet Evol] 2019 Apr; Vol. 69, pp. 8-11. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jan 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.01.006
Abstrakt: A monkeypox virus was detected from a human clinical case in 2018 in Cameroon; a country where no human cases were reported since 1989. The virus exhibited close genetic relatedness with another monkeypox virus isolated in Nigeria during the 2017-2018 outbreak. Although our molecular findings argue in favor of an extension of the monkeypox outbreak from Nigeria into Cameroon, the possibility that the monkeypox virus detected could be indigenous to Cameroon cannot be ruled out.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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