Field investigation with real-time virus genetic characterisation support of a cluster of Ebola virus disease cases in Dubréka, Guinea, April to june 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2018, Pages

  Pini, Alessandro ^a,b   Zomahoun, Delayo ^c   Duraffour, Sophie ^d   Derrough, Tarik ^a   Charles, Myrna ^c   Quick, Joshua ^e   Loman, Nick ^e   Cowley, Lauren ^f   Leno, Mamadou ^g   Ouedraogo, Nobila ^h   Thiam, Oumou ⁱ   Hernández Romieu, Alfonso ^c   Iko, Annie ^c   Keita, Halimatou ⁱ   Konate, Djiba ⁱ   Soumah, Aboubacar Aboubak ⁱ   Bouchouar, Etran ^c   Ileka Priouzeau, Samuel ^c   Keita, Sakoba ^j   Diallo, Boubacar ⁱ   Cisse, Fode ^g   Jansa, Josep ^a   Carroll, Miles ^f,k   Günther, Stephan ^d   Severi, Ettore ^a   Formenty, Pierre ⁱ   more..

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g Direction Prefectural de la Santé   (Guinea)

^h ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

ⁱ WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^j MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ   (Guinea)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRAIT; GUINEA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RNA EXTRACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYMPTOM; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS DNA;

CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; EBOLAVIRUS; GENOMICS; GUINEA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 85044768438     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.12.17-00140     Document Type: Article

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