The time is now (again) for mpox containment and elimination in Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Placide Mbala-Kingebeni ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mbalaplacide@gmail.com (PMK); Jason.Kindrachuk@umanitoba.ca (JK)

  Affiliations Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Epidemiology and Global Health Department, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Service de Microbiologie, Cliniques Universitaires, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Anne W. Rimoin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training Program, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Cris Kacita,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Monkeypox and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Control Program, Ministry of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Laurens Liesenborghs,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Jean B. Nachega,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and Center for Global Health, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Departments of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jason Kindrachuk

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mbalaplacide@gmail.com (PMK); Jason.Kindrachuk@umanitoba.ca (JK)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, Department of Internal Medicine, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3305-7084

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