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Identification of Human Monkeypox Virus Genome Deletions That Impact Diagnostic Assays
29 Nov 2022
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In August 2022, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health initiated an investigation into human monkeypox virus (MPXV) cases with unusual results from a multiplex laboratory-developed test used by Quest Diagnostics, which is based on the CDC nonvariola Orthopoxvirus (NVO) (1) and MPXV clade II (MPXV-WA) (2) real-time PCR assays. These specimens returned NVO–positive and either MPXV-WA–negative or...
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