Fatal Monkeypox in Wild-Living Sooty Mangabey, Côte d’Ivoire, 2012
Aleksandar Radonić, Sonja Metzger, Piotr Wojtek Dabrowski, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Livia Schuenadel, Andreas Kurth, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Christophe Boesch, Fabian H. Leendertz, and Andreas Nitsche
Author affiliations: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (A. Radonić, S. Metzger, P.W. Dabrowski, L. Schuenadel, A. Kurth, F.H. Leendertz, A. Nitsche); Laboratoire de la Pathologie Animale, Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire (E. Couacy-Hymann); Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Göttingen, Germany (K. Mätz-Rensing); Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (C. Boesch)
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Figure 1. Phylogenetic position of the MPXV-TNP isolate (framed in green) from a wild-living sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys), March 2012, within the West African cladeMPXV-TNP is closely related to the strain isolated from a human in Liberia in 1970Calculated with MrBayes (with gaps) as binary model (http://mrbayes.csit.fsu.edu)MPXV, monkeypox virus; TNP, Taï National Park (Côte d’Ivoire)Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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