Lien vers Pubmed [PMID] – 30634001
Lien DOI – S1567-1348(18)30844-X10.1016/j.meegid.2019.01.006
Infect Genet Evol 2019 04; 69(): 8-11
A monkeypox virus was detected from a human clinical case in 2018 in Cameroon; a country where no human cases were reported since 1989. The virus exhibited close genetic relatedness with another monkeypox virus isolated in Nigeria during the 2017-2018 outbreak. Although our molecular findings argue in favor of an extension of the monkeypox outbreak from Nigeria into Cameroon, the possibility that the monkeypox virus detected could be indigenous to Cameroon cannot be ruled out.