About the Authors

Phillip R. Pittman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

phillip.r.pittman.civ@health.mil

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

James W. Martin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Placide Mbala Kingebeni

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Kinshasa-Gombe B.P. 1197, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), L’Hôpital Général de Référence de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Kinshasa-Gombe B.P. 1197, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Gaston Mwema

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation L’Hôpital Général de Référence de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Qingwen Wan

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Pierre Ewala

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation L’Hôpital Général de Référence de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jules Alonga

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation L’Hôpital Général de Référence de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Guy Bilulu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation L’Hôpital Général de Référence de Kole, Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mary G. Reynolds

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Xiaofei Quinn

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah Norris

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Michael B. Townsend

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

James Wadding

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Bryony Soltis

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Anna Honko

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Fernando B. Güereña

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence Korman

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Kerry Patterson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

David A. Schwartz

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Perinatal Pathology Consulting, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John W. Huggins

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Medicine, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

on behalf of The Kole Human Mpox Infection Study Group

Membership of the Kole Human Mpox Infection Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests with products or companies described in this article.