Unusual ebola virus chain of transmission, Conakry, Guinea, 2014–2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2149-2152

  Keita, Mory ^a   Duraffour, Sophie ^b,c   Loman, Nicholas J ^d   Rambaut, Andrew ^e   Diallo, Boubacar ^a   Magassouba, Nfaly ^f   Carroll, Miles W ^c,g,h   Quick, Joshua ^d   Sall, Amadou A ⁱ   Glynn, Judith R ^j   Formenty, Pierre ^a   Subissi, Lorenzo ^a   Faye, Ousmane ⁱ  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c European Mobile Laboratory Consortium   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f Guinée Centre de Recherche et de Formation en Infectiologie de Guinée Guinean infectiology research and training center   (Guinea)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^j LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DIARRHEA; EBOLAVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LOW BACK PAIN; MALARIA; MYALGIA; ORAL BIOPSY; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; URINALYSIS; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CLASSIFICATION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GUINEA; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY; MALE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84995931524     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2212.160847     Document Type: Article

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