Recombination shapes the 2022 monkeypox (mpox) outbreak

Ting-Yu Yeh; Zih-Yu Hsieh; Michael C Feehley; Patrick J Feehley; Gregory P Contreras; Ying-Chieh Su; Shang-Lin Hsieh; Dylan A Lewis

doi:10.1016/j.medj.2022.11.003

Recombination shapes the 2022 monkeypox (mpox) outbreak

Med. 2022 Dec 9;3(12):824-826. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2022.11.003.

Authors

Ting-Yu Yeh¹, Zih-Yu Hsieh², Michael C Feehley³, Patrick J Feehley³, Gregory P Contreras³, Ying-Chieh Su⁴, Shang-Lin Hsieh⁵, Dylan A Lewis⁶

Affiliations

¹ Auxergen Inc., Columbus Center, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA. Electronic address: yehty@auxergen.com.
² Lake Washington High School, Kirkland, WA 98033, USA.
³ Auxergen Inc., Columbus Center, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA.
⁴ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan City, 710, Taiwan; Department of Biotechnology and Bioindustry Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, 710, Taiwan.
⁵ MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, 104, Taiwan.
⁶ Monte Vista High School, Danville, CA 94526, USA.

Abstract

Monkeypox (Mpox) is a global health emergency. Yeh et al. analyze tandem repeats and linkage disequilibrium in monkeypox virus (MPXV) sequences from the 2022 pandemic to determine the virus evolution, showing that these are useful tools to monitor and track phylogenetic dynamics and recombination of MPXV.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Monkeypox virus / genetics
Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology
Phylogeny