Metagenomic Sequencing of Monkeypox Virus, Northern Mexico

Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Feb;29(2):448-450. doi: 10.3201/eid2902.221199. Epub 2023 Jan 17.

Abstract

Monkeypox virus (MPXV) has gained interest because of a multicountry outbreak of mpox (formerly monkeypox) cases with no epidemiologic link to MPXV-endemic regions. We sequenced the complete genome of MPXV isolated from a patient in northern Mexico. Phylogenetic analysis grouped the virus with isolates from Germany.

Keywords: Mexico; Monkeypox virus; mpox; phylogeny; sexually transmitted infections; viruses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Base Sequence
  • Humans
  • Mexico / epidemiology
  • Monkeypox virus* / genetics
  • Mpox (monkeypox)* / diagnosis
  • Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology
  • Phylogeny