The 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa highlights no evidence of rapid evolution or adaptation to humans

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Xingguang ^a,b   Zai, Junjie ^c   Liu, Haizhou ^c   Feng, Yi ^a,b   Li, Fan ^a,b   Wei, Jing ^a,b   Zou, Sen ^a,b   Yuan, Zhiming ^c   Shao, Yiming ^a,b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 84992409193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep35822     Document Type: Article

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