Mpox virus DNA contamination can still be detected by qPCR analysis after autoclaving

Affiliations

• ¹ Diagnostics and Pathogen Characterisation, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK. Electronic address: antony.spencer@ukhsa.gov.uk.
• ² Diagnostics and Pathogen Characterisation, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK.
• ³ Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, Salisbury, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁵ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.