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Abstract

Several concurrent mpox outbreaks are ongoing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We report a case of severe clade Ia mpox in an adult woman with indeterminate HIV status who died 16 days after symptom onset. She self-identified as a sex worker and had spent time in the capital city, Kinshasa.

Keywords: DRC; Democratic Republic of the Congo; MPXV; case investigation; clade I; fatal; genome sequencing; monkeypox virus; mpox; sexually transmitted infections; viruses; zoonoses.

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Phylogenetic tree of mpox virus sequences from patient with clade Ia mpox virus linked to sexual transmission and reference sequences, Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 2024.
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