Christian Happi, Ifedayo Adetifa, Placide Mbala et al.
PLOS Biology, vol. 20, e3001769, 2022
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001769
Abstract
We propose a novel, non-discriminatory classification of monkeypox virus. Together with the World Health Organization, we named three clades (I, IIa and IIb) in order of detection. Within IIb, the cause the current global outbreak, we identified multiple lineages (A.1, A.2, A.1.1 and B.1) to support real-time genomics surveillance.