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Volume 29, Number 9—September 2023
Dispatch

Laboratory Diagnosis of Mpox, Central African Republic, 2016–2022

Sandra Garba-Ouangole1, Josephine Bourner1Comments to Author , Festus Mbrenga, Ella Gonofio, Benjamin Selekon, Alexandre Manirakiza, Ernest Kalthan, Christian Malaka, Yap Boum, Piero Olliaro2, and Emmanuel Nakouné2
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic (S. Garba-Ouangole, F. Mbrenga, E. Gonofio, C. Malaka, Y. Boum II, E. Nakouné); International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (J. Bourner); Ministry of Health and Population, Bangui (B. Selekon, A. Manirakiza, E. Kalthan)

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Table 1

Test results by specimen type and test type for MPXV and VZV in a study assessing laboratory diagnosis of mpox, Central African Republic, 2016–2022*

Specimen type MPXV (G2RG)
 MPXV (C3L)
 VZV
Positive Negative Positive Negative Positive Negative
Blood 77/278 (28) 201/278 (72) 73/278 (26) 205/278 (74) 62/260 (24) 198/260 (76)
Active lesion 45/102 (44) 57/102 (56) 45/102 (44) 57/102 (56) 42/108 (39) 66/108 (61)
Scab 36/98 (37) 62/98 (63) 37/98 (38) 61/98 (62) 38/100 (38) 62/100 (62)
Oropharyngeal 3/22 (14) 19/22 (86) 2/22 (9) 20/22 (91) 6/22 (27) 16/22 (73)

*Data are no. positive/no. tested (%). C3L, clade I–specific primer; G2RG, generic primer; MPXV, monkeypox virus; VZV, varicella–zoster virus.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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