Joint Understanding and Analysis of clade I monkeypox epidemiology, evolution and immunology in South Kivu

Project Information

JUA KIVU

Grant agreement ID: 101195116

DOI

10.3030/101195116

EC signature date 4 December 2024

Start date 1 October 2024

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• Health

Total cost

€ 1 250 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 250 000,00

Coordinated by

ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Metagenomic sequencing of mpox virus clade Ib lesions identifies possible bacterial and viral co-infections in hospitalized patients in eastern DRC

Author(s): Leonard Schuele; Leandre Murhula Masirika; Hayley Cassidy; Philip T. L. C. Clausen; Luca M. Zaeck; Marjan Boter; Pacifique Ndishimye; Jean Claude Udahemuka; Rory D. de Vries; Saria Otani; Richard Molenkamp; David F. Nieuwenhuijse; Justin Bengehya Mbiribindi; Freddy Belesi Siangoli; Marion Koopmans; Frank M. Aarestrup; Bas B. Oude Munnink
Published in: Microbiology Spectrum, 2025, ISSN 2165-0497
Publisher: ASM Press
DOI: 10.1128/SPECTRUM.00512-25

Epidemiological and genomic evolution of the ongoing outbreak of clade Ib mpox virus in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Author(s): Leandre Murhula Masirika, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Leonard Schuele, David F. Nieuwenhuijse, Pacifique Ndishimye, Marjan Boter, Justin Bengehya Mbiribindi, Cris Kacita, Trudie Lang, Christian Gortázar,
Published in: Nature Medicine, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41591-025-03582-1

Mpox: A case study for a one health approach to infectious disease prevention

Author(s): Hayman, David T.S.; Koopmans, Marion P.G.; Cunningham, Andrew A.; Bukachi, Salome A.; Masirika, Leandre Murhula; Markotter, Wanda; Mettenleiter, Thomas C.
Published in: One Health, 2025, ISSN 2352-7714
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.ONEHLT.2025.101059

Serological evidence of clade Ib Mpox transmission by sex workers and within household in South Kivu, DRC

Author(s): Leandre Murhula Masirika, Luca M. Zaeck, Pacifique Ndishimye, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Saria Otani, Frank M. Aarestrup, Leonard Schuele, Babs E. Verstrepen, Scott Jones, Ashley Otter, Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel, Jean Pierre Musabyimana, Justin Bengehya Mbiribindi, Jules Minega Ndoli, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Freddy Siangoli Belesi, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Rory D. de Vries
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-62064-7