Puzzling origins of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2014

Journal of Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 10130-10132

  Lam, Tommy Tsan Yuk ^a   Zhu, Huachen ^a   Chong, Yee Ling ^b   Holmes, Edward C ^c   Guan, Yi ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

^c University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LETTER; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS MUTATION; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; MALE;

EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84940973393     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01226-15     Document Type: Letter

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