Exportation of Monkeypox Virus From the African Continent.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The largest West African monkeypox outbreak began September 2017, in Nigeria. Four individuals traveling from Nigeria to the United Kingdom (n = 2), Israel (n = 1), and Singapore (n = 1) became the first human monkeypox cases exported from Africa, and a related nosocomial transmission event in the United Kingdom became the first confirmed human-to-human monkeypox transmission event outside of Africa.

Methods

Epidemiological and molecular data for exported and Nigerian cases were analyzed jointly to better understand the exportations in the temporal and geographic context of the outbreak.

Results

Isolates from all travelers and a Bayelsa case shared a most recent common ancestor and traveled to Bayelsa, Delta, or Rivers states. Genetic variation for this clu

SUBMITTER: Mauldin MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016419 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature