Table 1.

Mammal genera and species potentially involved as reservoir or secondary hosts of MPXV.

Order	Family	Genus	Virus Isolation	MPXV Fragment Amplified by PCR (Sequenced in Bold)	Anti-OPXV Antibodies
Eulipotyphla	Erinaceidae	Atelerix		Atelerix spp. [55]	Atelerix spp. [55]
Eulipotyphla	Soricidae	Crocidura		C. littoralis [41]
Macroscelidea	Macroscelididae	Petrodromus			P. tetradactylus [54,57]
Primates	Cercopithecidae	Allenopithecus			A. nigroviridis [52]
Primates	Cercopithecidae	Cercocebus	C. atys [39]	C. atys [39]	C. galeritus [52]
Primates	Cercopithecidae	Cercopithecus			C. ascanius [38,51,52,53] C. mona [52] C. nictitans [52] C. petaurista [49,50] C. pogonias [38,51,52]
Primates	Cercopithecidae	Chlorocebus			C. aethiops * [49]
Primates	Cercopithecidae	Piliocolobus			P. badius * [50] P. pennanti * [52]
Primates	Hominidae	Pan		P. troglodytes [40]
Primates	Lorisidae	Perodicticus			P. potto [52]
Rodentia	Dipodidae	Jaculus		Jaculus spp. [55]
Rodentia	Gliridae	Graphiurus		G. lorraineus [55] Graphiurus spp. [55,56]	G. lorraineus [57] Graphiurus spp. [55,56]
Rodentia	Muridae	Malacomys		M. longipes (MT724769)
Rodentia	Muridae	Oenomys			O. hypoxanthus [57]
Rodentia	Muridae	Stochomys		S. longicaudatus [41]
Rodentia	Nesomyidae	Cricetomys		Cricetomys sp. [41] Cricetomys spp. [55,56]	C. emini [54,57] Cricetomys spp. [55,56]
Rodentia	Sciuridae	Funisciurus	F. anerythrus [37]	F. anerythrus [37,41,55,56,58] F. bayonii [41] F. carruthersi [58] F. congicus [58] F. lemniscatus [58] F. pyrropus [58] Funisciurus. spp. [55,56]	F. anerythrus [38,51,52,54] F. isabella [52] F. lemniscatus [52] Funisciurus spp. [52,53,56,57,59]
Rodentia	Sciuridae	Heliosciurus			H. rufobrachium [51,52,53,54] H. gambianus [52,56] Heliosciurus spp. [39,53,57]
Rodentia	Sciuridae	Xerus		Xerus sp. [56]

*: current species names provided by the IUCN [60].