Evolutionary implications of human transmission of monkeypox: the importance of sequencing multiple lesions

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The international outbreak of monkeypox that was recognised in May, 2022 represents a new transmission route for monkeypox virus. Since it was first recognised as a zoonotic pathogen in the 1970s, this virus has frequently jumped from its rodent reservoir hosts into people, predominantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Such zoonotic events are estimated at several thousand per year, but are characterised...

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