A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission

Affiliations

• ¹ Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ² Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart and Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ³ Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ⁵ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁶ TransVIHMI, Université de Montpellier, INSERM, IRD, Montpellier, France.
• ⁷ Service de microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁸ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁹ University of Basel and SIB, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ¹¹ Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD, USA.
• ¹² Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹³ Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.
• ¹⁴ Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar of Cornell University, Doha, Qatar.
• ¹⁵ Special Infectious Agents Unit - BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ¹⁶ Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ¹⁷ Charité Medical Center, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁸ School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ²⁰ College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• ²¹ National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
• ²² Los Alamos National Laboratory, The New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
• ²³ Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ²⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
• ²⁵ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ²⁶ Bayelsa Medical University, Yenagoa, Nigeria.
• ²⁷ Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ²⁸ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China.
• ²⁹ Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ³⁰ Laboratory of Respiratory Viruses, Exanthematics, Enteroviruses and Viral Emergencies (LVRE), Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ³¹ Department of Epidemiology, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ³² Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• ³³ National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore, Singapore.
• ³⁴ Lee Kong Chien School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
• ³⁵ Department of Infectious Disease Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan.
• ³⁶ National Institute of Virology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Pune, India.
• ³⁷ Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• ³⁸ Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Salisbury, UK.
• ³⁹ Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• ⁴⁰ UK Health Security Agency, London, UK.
• ⁴¹ National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁴² School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁴³ Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. subissil@who.int.
• ⁴⁴ Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk.