Evaluation and clinical validation of monkeypox (mpox) virus real-time PCR assays.

"Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: ALG reports contract testing from Abbott, Cepheid, Novavax, Pfizer, Janssen and Hologic and research support from Gilead and Merck, outside of the described work. Dr Kachikis reported serving as a research consultant for Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline on maternal immunization-related projects in 2020 and as an unpaid consultant for GlaxoSmithKline in 2022 outside the submitted work. Dr Kachikis reported receiving grant support from Merck and Pfizer outside the submitted work."

"The authors thank our study participants for their time and effort to donate specimens to the University of Washington Medical Center. AK is supported by NIH K23 AI153390-01."