1 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Salisbury, UK.
2 WHO Collaborating Centre for Orthopoxvirus Diagnosis and Repository for Variola Virus Strains and DNA, FBRI SRC VB VECTOR, Rospotrebnadzor, Koltsovo, Russia.
3 National Centre for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; Health Emergencies Programme, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
4 Health Emergencies Programme, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
5 African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Redeemers University, Ede, Nigeria.
6 Data Analytics and Delivery for Impact Division, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
7 Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
8 WHO Collaborating Centre for Smallpox and other Poxviruses, National Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
9 School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, and Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
10 Health Emergencies Programme, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland; College of Medicine, Ibadan University, Ibadan, Nigeria.
11 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
12 Health Emergencies Programme, WHO, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland; Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Abuja, Nigeria.