Article
Different Coexisting Mpox Lineages Were Continuously Circulating in Humans Prior to 2022
2023-01-04
Abstract excerpt
The origin and hazardous potential of human mpox is obscured by a lack of genomic data between the 2018, when exportations from Nigeria were recorded, and 2022 when the global outbreak started. Here, 18 genomes from patients across southern Nigeria in 2019/20 reveal multiple lineages of Monkeypox virus have achieved sustained human-to-human transmission, co-existing in humans for several years and accumulating mut...
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- Literature Corpus work
- e20aa139-3a45-5476-8c10-d4082820429e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.01.03.522633
