Sustained human outbreak of a new MPXV clade I lineage in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Affiliations

• ¹ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ² Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ³ Hemorrhagic Fever and Monkeypox Program, Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁴ Service de Microbiologie, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁵ TransVIHMI (Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les Maladies Infectieuses endémiques et émergentes), Université de Montpellier, French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), INSERM, Montpellier, France.
• ⁶ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁷ Rodolphe Merieux INRB-Goma Laboratory, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁸ Kamituga General Hospital, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁹ Kamituga Health Zone, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ¹⁰ Provincial Health Division, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ¹¹ African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Redeemer's University, Ede, Nigeria.
• ¹² Medical Department, The Alliance for International Medical Action, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ¹³ Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
• ¹⁴ International Research Center of Excellence, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ¹⁵ Global Pediatrics Program and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• ¹⁶ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁷ Frederick National Laboratory, Leidos Biomedical Research, Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate, Frederick, MD, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁹ US Department of Agriculture, Manhattan, KS, USA.
• ²⁰ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ²¹ Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ²² Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
• ²³ National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. [email protected].
• ²⁵ Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. [email protected].
• ²⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa. [email protected].
• ²⁷ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ²⁸ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [email protected].
• ²⁹ Service de Microbiologie, Département de Biologie Médicale, Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [email protected].