Identification and Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Monkeypox Virus Strain Isolated in Israel

Inbar Cohen-Gihon; Ofir Israeli; Ohad Shifman; Noam Erez; Sharon Melamed; Nir Paran; Adi Beth-Din; Anat Zvi

doi:10.1128/MRA.01524-19

Identification and Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Monkeypox Virus Strain Isolated in Israel

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Mar 5;9(10):e01524-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01524-19.

Authors

Inbar Cohen-Gihon^#¹, Ofir Israeli^#², Ohad Shifman¹, Noam Erez³, Sharon Melamed³, Nir Paran³, Adi Beth-Din¹, Anat Zvi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.
² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel ofiri@iibr.gov.il.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We report the whole-genome sequence of a monkeypox virus strain isolated in Israel. The strain was isolated in 2018 from a patient travelling back from West Africa. The virus was fully sequenced on the Illumina MiSeq and Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION platforms.