Progressive Vaccinia Acquired through Zoonotic Transmission in a Patient with HIV/AIDS, Colombia
Katherine Laiton-Donato
1 , Paola Ávila-Robayo
1, Andrés Páez-Martinez, Paula Benjumea-Nieto, José A. Usme-Ciro, Nicole Pinzón-Nariño, Ivan Giraldo, Diego Torres-Castellanos, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Nishi Patel, Kimberly Wilkins, Yu Li, Whitni Davidson, Jillybeth Burgado, Panayampalli Subbian Satheshkumar, Ashley Styczynski, Matthew R. Mauldin, Martha Gracia-Romero, and Brett W. Petersen
Author affiliations: Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogotá, Colombia (K. Laiton-Donato, J.A. Usme-Ciro, M. Gracia-Romero); Hospital Universitario Mayor Méderi-Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (P. Ávila-Robayo, P. Benjumea-Nieto, N. Pinzón-Nariño, I. Giraldo, D. Torres-Castellanos); Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá (A. Páez-Martínez); Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Santa Marta, Colombia (J.A. Usme-Ciro); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Y. Nakazawa, N. Patel, K. Wilkins, Y. Li, W. Davidson, J. Burgado, P.S. Satheshkumar, A. Styczynski, M.R. Mauldin, B.W. Petersen)
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic inference of Orthopoxvirus genus based on the A56R hemagglutinin gene. Nucleotide sequences of 829 bp representing the different species were aligned and used for Bayesian inference (Appendix). Black diamonds indicate previously reported sequences of VACV in Colombia; red diamond indicates sequence from the strain from the patient in this study (POX0009). GenBank accession numbers are provided for reference sequences. CPXV, cowpox virus; MPXV, monkeypox virus; VACV, vaccinia virus; VARV, variola virus.
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