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. 2023 Apr 18;12(4):e0000923.
doi: 10.1128/mra.00009-23. Epub 2023 Mar 27.

Complete Genome Sequences of Monkeypox Virus from a French Clinical Sample and the Corresponding Isolated Strain, Obtained Using Nanopore Sequencing

Charlotte Balière  1 , Véronique Hourdel  1 , Aurelia Kwasiborski  1 , Quentin Grassin  1 , Maxence Feher  1 , Damien Hoinard  1 , Jessica Vanhomwegen  1 , Fabien Taieb  2 , Paul-Henri Consigny  2 , Jean-Claude Manuguerra  1 , India Leclercq  1 , Christophe Batéjat  1 , Valérie Caro  1
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Complete Genome Sequences of Monkeypox Virus from a French Clinical Sample and the Corresponding Isolated Strain, Obtained Using Nanopore Sequencing

Charlotte Balière et al. Microbiol Resour Announc. .

Abstract

We report the whole-genome sequences of a monkeypox virus from the skin lesion of a French patient and the corresponding isolated viral strain. Both viral genomic sequences were successfully obtained by applying shotgun metagenomics using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing approach.

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