Whole-Genome Sequence of a Human Monkeypox Virus Strain Detected in Egypt

Monkeypox virus has recently been detected in multiple countries. Two cases of monkeypox virus were reported in Egypt as part of an ongoing international outbreak. We report the whole-genome sequence of a monkeypox virus that was retrieved from the first confirmed case in Egypt. The virus was fully...

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Published inMicrobiology resource announcements Vol. 12; no. 6; p. e0000623
Main Authors Roshdy, Wael H, El-Shesheny, Rabeh, Moatasim, Yassmin, Kamel, Mina N, Showky, Shaymaa, Gomaa, Mokhtar, Naguib, Amel, El Guindy, Nancy, Fahim, Manal, Khalifa, Mohamed, Galal, Ramy, Hassany, Mohamed, Kandeil, Ahmed, Ali, Mohamed A, Kandeel, Amr
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Society for Microbiology 20.06.2023
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Genome Sequences
Virology
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Summary:Monkeypox virus has recently been detected in multiple countries. Two cases of monkeypox virus were reported in Egypt as part of an ongoing international outbreak. We report the whole-genome sequence of a monkeypox virus that was retrieved from the first confirmed case in Egypt. The virus was fully sequenced on the Illumina platform, and phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the current monkeypox strain is closely related to clade IIb, which caused recent multicountry outbreaks.
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Wael H. Roshdy and Rabeh El-Shesheny contributed equally to this work. Author order was determined by technical lab work.
ISSN:2576-098X
2576-098X
DOI:10.1128/mra.00006-23