Emergence of divergent zaire Ebola virus strains in democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007 and 2008

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Grard, Gilda ^a   Biek, Roman ^b   Muyembe Tamfum, Jean Jacques ^c,d   Fair, Joseph ^d   Wolfe, Nathan ^d   Formenty, Pierre ^e   Paweska, Janusz ^f   Leroy, Eric ^a,g  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^d Global Viral Forecasting   (United States)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^g University de Montpellier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGO; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 80054754287     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir364     Document Type: Article

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