We isolated a monkeypox virus from a wild-living monkey, a sooty mangabey, found dead in Ta National Park, Cte d'Ivoire, in March 2012. The whole-genome sequence obtained from this isolate and directly from clinical specimens showed its close relationship to monkeypox viruses from Western Africa.
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