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SUBMITTER: Kumar P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10146223 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumar Parveen P Chaudhary Benu B Yadav Nishant N Devi Sushma S Pareek Ashutosh A Alla Sujatha S Kajal Fnu F Nowrouzi-Kia Behdin B Chattu Vijay Kumar VK Gupta Madan Mohan MM
Viruses 20230410 4
In 2003, the United States saw an epidemic of monkeypox that was later traced back to rodents of West Africa infected with the monkeypox virus (MPXV). Disease in the United States seemed less severe than the smallpox-like disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In this study, researchers analyzed data from Central Africa: two distinct MPXV clades were confirmed by sequencing the genomes of MPXV isolates from Western Africa, the United States, and Central Africa. By comparing open ...[more]