Ongoing mpox outbreak in Kamituga, South Kivu province, associated with monkeypox virus of a novel Clade I sub-lineage, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2024

Leandre Murhula Masirika, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Leonard Schuele, +15

Eurosurveillance

Monkeypox VirusSuspected Monkeypox VirusVirus EpidemiologyViral EvolutionEmerging Infectious Disease +14

Critical steps in clinical shotgun metagenomics for the concomitant detection and typing of microbial pathogens

Natacha Couto, Leonard Schuele, Erwin C. Raangs, +11

Scientific Reports

Genomic characterisation of clinical and environmental Pseudomonas putida group strains and determination of their role in the transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Silke Peter, Philipp Oberhettinger, Leonard Schuele, +8

BMC Genomics

Real-time PCR assay to detect the novel Clade Ib monkeypox virus, September 2023 to May 2024

Leonard Schuele, Leandre Murhula Masirika, Jean Claude Udahemuka, +7

Eurosurveillance

Monkeypox VirusViral DiagnosticsMpxv Real-time PcrPathologyMay 2024 +14

Development of a quantitative high-performance thin-layer chromatographic method for sucralose in sewage effluent, surface water, and drinking water

Gertrud E. Morlock, Leonard Schuele, Sebastian Grashorn

Journal of Chromatography A

Sewage Sludge TreatmentDrinking WaterChemical EngineeringSewage EffluentEngineering +9

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

Leandre Murhula Masirika, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Leonard Schuele, +13

Nature Medicine

Assessment of Viral Targeted Sequence Capture Using Nanopore Sequencing Directly from Clinical Samples

Leonard Schuele, Hayley Cassidy, Erley Lizarazo, +10

Viruses

EngineeringViral DiagnosticsImmunologyGenomicsHigh Throughput Sequencing +16

Host DNA depletion can increase the sensitivity of Mycobacterium spp. detection through shotgun metagenomics in sputum

Nienke Kok, Nilay Peker, Leonard Schuele, +4

Frontiers in Microbiology

Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and transmission patterns of a novel Mpox (Monkeypox) outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): <i>an observational, cross-sectional cohort study</i>

Leandre Murhula Masirika, Jean Claude Udahemuka, Pacifique Ndishimye, +25

Mapping the distribution and describing the first cases from an ongoing outbreak of a New Strain of mpox in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between September 2023 to April 2024

Leandre Murhula Masirika, David F. Nieuwenhuijse, Pacifique Ndishimye, +23

Epidemiologic ResearchDisease OutbreakProfessional Sex WorkersClinical EpidemiologyMedical Anthropology +24