Mary Wilson
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Aug 22 (2024)
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On 29 July 2024, the Kenyan Ministry of Health confirmed a case of mpox in Taita Taveta County which borders Tanzania (Mpox – African Region 1). The reported case was from a 42-year-old male, a long-distance truck driver who had travelled from Kampala, Uganda to Mombasa, Kenya and was enroute to Rwanda at the time of detection. The date of onset of symptoms was 3 July 2024 and the case was detected and isolated by the Kenyan Ministry of Health officials on 22 July 2024 after presenting with classic symptoms of mpox infection. Here, we report the rapid application of unbiased metagenomic next generation sequencing (mNGS) to reconstruct the genome sequence of this mpox case in Kenya. The protocol under which the sample was obtained and processed for qPCR and sequencing is approved by the Kenya Medical Research Institute’s Scientific Ethics and Review Unit (SERU) under study number; SSC3035. ...
The following individuals are leading this work:
Ministry of Health – Kenya: Emmanuel Okunga, Daniel Langat and Patrick Amoth.
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI): Konongoi Limbaso, Victor Ofula, Samoel Khamadi and Elijah Songok.
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (US): Genay Pilarowski and Paul Oluniyi.
https://virological.org/t/draft-gen...-mpox-virus-detected-in-kenya-august-2024/976
10d
slangat
On 29 July 2024, the Kenyan Ministry of Health confirmed a case of mpox in Taita Taveta County which borders Tanzania (Mpox – African Region 1). The reported case was from a 42-year-old male, a long-distance truck driver who had travelled from Kampala, Uganda to Mombasa, Kenya and was enroute to Rwanda at the time of detection. The date of onset of symptoms was 3 July 2024 and the case was detected and isolated by the Kenyan Ministry of Health officials on 22 July 2024 after presenting with classic symptoms of mpox infection. Here, we report the rapid application of unbiased metagenomic next generation sequencing (mNGS) to reconstruct the genome sequence of this mpox case in Kenya. The protocol under which the sample was obtained and processed for qPCR and sequencing is approved by the Kenya Medical Research Institute’s Scientific Ethics and Review Unit (SERU) under study number; SSC3035. ...
The following individuals are leading this work:
Ministry of Health – Kenya: Emmanuel Okunga, Daniel Langat and Patrick Amoth.
Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI): Konongoi Limbaso, Victor Ofula, Samoel Khamadi and Elijah Songok.
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (US): Genay Pilarowski and Paul Oluniyi.
https://virological.org/t/draft-gen...-mpox-virus-detected-in-kenya-august-2024/976
