Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus

• Author(s): Happi, Christian ; Adetifa, Ifedayo ; Mbala, Placide ; Njouom, Richard ; Nakoune, Emmanuel ; Happi, Anise ; Ndodo, Nnaemeka ; Ayansola, Oyeronke ; Mboowa, Gerald ; Bedford, Trevor ; Neher, Richard A. ; Roemer, Cornelius ; Hodcroft, Emma ; Tegally, Houriiyah ; O’Toole, Áine ; Rambaut, Andrew ; Pybus, Oliver ; Kraemer, Moritz U. G. ; Wilkinson, Eduan ; Isidro, Joana ; Borges, Vítor ; Pinto, Miguel ; Gomes, João Paulo ; Freitas, Lucas ; Resende, Paola C. ; Lee, Raphael T. C. ; Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian ; Baxter, Cheryl ; Lessells, Richard ; Ogwell, Ahmed E. ; Kebede, Yenew ; Tessema, Sofonias K. ; de Oliveira, Tulio
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/8489
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
• Subject(s): Monkeypox Virus; Diagnosis; Genomics; Disease Outbreaks; Epidemiology
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde

Description

We propose a novel, non-discriminatory classification of monkeypox virus diversity. Together with the World Health Organization, we named three clades (I, IIa and IIb) in order of detection. Within IIb, the cause of the current global outbreak, we identified multiple lineages (A.1, A.2, A.1.1 and B.1) to support real-time genomic surveillance.