Figure 1.
Phylogenetic analysis of all near-to-complete genome mpox sequences from Africa available on GISAID and the NCBI including the 2024 sequences from Kamituga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (n = 121 sequences)
DRC: Democratic Republic of the Congo; NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information.
The scale under the tree represents the number of substitutions per site. Sequences from Kamituga are presented in magenta, previous sequences from DRC in red and sequences from the 2022 outbreak in blue [14]. Arrows indicate sequences which have been shown in a prior publication to cluster with the previous sequences from a 2023 MPXV outbreak from Kwilu Province near Kinshasa [3]. Lineages are indicated as proposed by Nakazawa et al. [19] and Berthet et al. [20].
We gratefully acknowledge all data contributors, i.e., the authors and their originating laboratories responsible for obtaining the specimens, and their submitting laboratories for generating the genetic sequence and metadata and sharing via the GISAID Initiative, on which this research is based.
