Nomenclature- and database-compatible names for the Two Ebola virus variants that emerged in guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4760-4799

  Kuhn, Jens H ^a   Andersen, Kristian G ^b   Baize, Sylvain ^c,w   Bào, Yīmíng ^d   Bavari, Sina ^e   Berthet, Nicolas ^f   Blinkova, Olga ^d   Rodney, Brister J ^d   Clawson, Anna N ^a   Fair, Joseph ^g   Gabriel, Martin ^h   Garry, Robert F ⁱ   Gire, Stephen K ^b   Goba, Augustine ^j   Gonzalez, Jean Paul ^k   Günther, Stephan ^h   Happi, Christian T ^l   Jahrling, Peter B ^a   Kapetshi, Jimmy ^m   Kobinger, Gary ⁿ   Kugelman, Jeffrey R ^e   Leroy, Eric M ^f   Maganga, Gael Darren ^f   Mbala, Placide K ^m   Moses, Lina M ⁱ   Muyembe Tamfum, Jean Jacques ^m   N’Faly, Magassouba ^o   Nichol, Stuart T ^p   Omilabu, Sunday A ^q   Palacios, Gustavo ^e   Park, Daniel J ^r   Paweska, Janusz T ^s   Radoshitzky, Sheli R ^e   Rossi, Cynthia A ^e   Sabeti, Pardis C ^b   Schieffelin, John S ⁱ   Schoepp, Randal J ^e   Sealfon, Rachel ^t   Swanepoel, Robert ^u   Towner, Jonathan S ^p   Wada, Jiro ^a   Wauquier, Nadia ^k   Yozwiak, Nathan L ^b,r   Formenty, Pierre ^v   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institut Pasteur   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^g Fondation Merieux   (United States)

^h BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

ⁱ TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j Kenema Government Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

^k METABIOTA INC   (United States)

^l REDEEMER S UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^m Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale   (Congo)

ⁿ PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^o Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry   (Equatorial Guinea)

^p NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS   (Nigeria)

^r BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^s NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^t MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^v WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^w CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFECTIOLOGIE   (France)

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Author keywords

Ebola; Ebola virus; Ebolavirus; Filovirid; Filoviridae; Filovirus; Genome annotation; Lokolia; Lomela; Makona; Mononegavirad; Mononegavirales; Mononegavirus; Virus classification; Virus isolate; Virus nomenclature; Virus strain; Virus taxonomy; Virus variant

Indexed keywords

CONGO; EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GUINEA; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS NOMENCLATURE; VIRUS STRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DNA SEQUENCE; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOMENCLATURE; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY;

EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRIDAE; MARBURGVIRUS; MONONEGAVIRALES;

VIRUS RNA;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84912575573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6114760     Document Type: Letter

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