Author: Revista Do Instituto De Medicina Tropical De São Paulo

Sequencing of the first case of the monkeypox virus in Brazil

Genome sequencing of the B.1 lineage

Monkeypox virus, a zoonotic virus endemic to the African continent, has been reported in 33 non-endemic countries since May 2022. We report an almost complete genome of the first confirmed case of MPXV in Brazil. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing was completed in 18 hours, from DNA extraction to consensus sequence generation. Read More →