Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus

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Authors

Happi, Christian

Adetifa, Ifedayo

Njouom, Richard

Nakoune, Emmanuel

Ndodo, Nnaemeka

Ayansola, Oyeronke

Bedford, Trevor

Abstract(s)

We propose a novel, non-discriminatory classification of monkeypox virus diversity. Together with the World Health Organization, we named three clades (I, IIa and IIb) in order of detection. Within IIb, the cause of the current global outbreak, we identified multiple lineages (A.1, A.2, A.1.1 and B.1) to support real-time genomic surveillance.

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Free PMC article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9451062/

Keywords

Monkeypox Virus Diagnosis Genomics Disease Outbreaks Epidemiology

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/8489

Citation

PLoS Biol. 2022 Aug 23;20(8):e3001769. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001769. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Publisher

Public Library of Science

DOI

10.1371/journal.pbio.3001769

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