Monitoring of Ebola virus Makona evolution through establishment of advanced genomic capability in Liberia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1135-1143

  Kugelman, Jeffrey R ^a   Wiley, Michael R ^a   Mate, Suzanne ^a   Ladner, Jason T ^a   Beitzel, Brett ^a   Fakoli, Lawrence ^b   Taweh, Fahn ^b   Prieto, Karla ^a   Diclaro, Joseph W ^c   Minogue, Timothy ^a   Schoepp, Randal J ^a   Schaecher, Kurt E ^a   Pettitt, James ^d   Bateman, Stacey ^a   Fair, Joseph ^e   Kuhn, Jens H ^d   Hensley, Lisa ^d   Park, Daniel J ^f   Sabeti, Pardis C ^f,g   Sanchez Lockhart, Mariano ^a   Bolay, Fatorma K ^b   Palacios, Gustavo ^a   more..

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

^b Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research   (Liberia)

^c US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

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

^e Foundation Merieux   (United States)

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

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIBERIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION RATE; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS LOAD; YOUNG ADULT; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; EBOLAVIRUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA;

EID: 84931405690     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2107.150522     Document Type: Article

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