Volume 19, Number 2—February 2013
Research
Phylogenetic and Ecologic Perspectives of a Monkeypox Outbreak, Southern Sudan, 2005
Yoshinori Nakazawa
, Ginny L. Emerson, Darin S. Carroll, Hui Zhao, Yu Li, Mary G. Reynolds, Kevin L. Karem, Victoria A. Olson, R. Ryan Lash, Whitni B. Davidson, Scott K. Smith, Rebecca S. Levine, Russell L. Regnery, Scott A. Sammons, Michael A. Frace, Elmangory M. Mutasim, Mubarak E. M. Karsani, Mohammed O. Muntasir, Alimagboul A. Babiker, Langova Opoka, Vipul Chowdhary, and Inger K. Damon
, Ginny L. Emerson, Darin S. Carroll, Hui Zhao, Yu Li, Mary G. Reynolds, Kevin L. Karem, Victoria A. Olson, R. Ryan Lash, Whitni B. Davidson, Scott K. Smith, Rebecca S. Levine, Russell L. Regnery, Scott A. Sammons, Michael A. Frace, Elmangory M. Mutasim, Mubarak E. M. Karsani, Mohammed O. Muntasir, Alimagboul A. Babiker, Langova Opoka, Vipul Chowdhary, and Inger K. DamonTable 2
Nucleotide differences and distances between genome sequences (189,830 nt) of monkeypox virus isolates, 1958–2005*
| Isolate | Copenhagen 1958 | Liberia 1970 | Sierra Leone 1970 | Walter Reed 1961 | USA/ Ghana 039 2003 | Sankuru Zaire 1996 | Impfondo RoC 2003 | Mindembo Zaire 1979 | Yandongi DRC 1986 | Sudan 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen 1958 | – | |||||||||
| Liberia 1970 | 74 | – | ||||||||
| Sierra Leone 1970 | 81 | 67 | – | |||||||
| Walter Reed 1961 | 7 | 73 | 80 | – | ||||||
| USA/Ghana 039 2003 | 130 | 138 | 143 | 129 | – | |||||
| Sankuru Zaire 1996 | 1,000 | 1,007 | 1,017 | 1,001 | 1,029 | – | ||||
| Impfondo RoC 2003 | 1,005 | 1,012 | 1,022 | 1,006 | 1,034 | 59 | – | |||
| Mindembo Zaire 1979 | 998 | 1,005 | 1,015 | 999 | 1,027 | 56 | 43 | – | ||
| Yandongi DRC 1986 | 1,003 | 1,009 | 1,020 | 1,004 | 1,032 | 55 | 44 | 34 | – | |
| Sudan 2005 | 1,012 | 1,018 | 1,029 | 1,013 | 1,041 | 66 | 55 | 34 | 21 | – |
*Dashes indicate 100% identity points; blank cells indicate identical values to those below the diagonal; shaded cells indicate within-clade variation; raw number of nucleotide differences between pairs of isolates. DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo.
