Genomic analysis of filoviruses associated with four viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012

Virology

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 97-100

  Albarino C G ^a   Shoemaker, T ^a   Khristova, M L ^a   Wamala, J F ^b   Muyembe, J J ^c   Balinandi, S ^a   Tumusiime, A ^a   Campbell, S ^a   Cannon, D ^a   Gibbons, A ^a   Bergeron, E ^a   Bird, B ^a   Dodd, K ^a   Spiropoulou, C ^a   Erickson, B R ^a   Guerrero, L ^a   Knust, B ^a   Nichol, S T ^a   Rollin, P E ^a   Stroher U ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

Author keywords

Bundibugyo virus; Ebola virus; Filoviridae; Marburg virus; Sudan virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUNDIBUGYO VIRUS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DISEASE RE-EMERGENCE; EPIDEMIC; FILOVIRUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUDAN VIRUS; UGANDA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UGANDA;

EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS;

EID: 84879128505     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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