Medical countermeasures during the 2018 Ebola virus disease outbreak in the North Kivu and Ituri Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a rapid genomic assessment

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 648-657

  Mbala Kingebeni, Placide ^a,b,c   Aziza, Amuri ^a   Di Paola, Nicholas ^d   Wiley, Michael R ^d,e   Makiala Mandanda, Sheila ^a,c   Caviness, Katie ^d   Pratt, Catherine B ^d,e   Ladner, Jason T ^e,f   Kugelman, Jeffrey R ^g   Prieto, Karla ^d,e   Chitty, Joseph A ^d   Larson, Peter A ^d   Beitzel, Brett ^d   Ayouba, Ahidjo ^b   Vidal, Nicole ^b   Karhemere, Stomy ^a   Diop, Mamadou ^h   Diagne, Moussa M ^h   Faye, Martin ^h   Faye, Ousmane ^h   Aruna, Aaron ⁱ   Nsio, Justus ⁱ   Mulangu, Felix ⁱ   Mukadi, Daniel ^c   Mukadi, Patrick ^a   Kombe, John ⁱ   Mulumba, Anastasie ^j   Villabona Arenas, Christian Julian ^k   Pukuta, Elisabeth ^a   Gonzalez, Jeanette ^d   Bartlett, Maggie L ^d,e   Sozhamannan, Shanmuga ^l,m   Gross, Stephen M ⁿ   Schroth, Gary P ⁿ   Tim, Roger ⁿ   Zhao, Junhua J ⁿ   Kuhn, Jens H ^o   Diallo, Boubacar ^j   Yao, Michel ^j   Fall, Ibrahima S ^j   Ndjoloko, Bathe ⁱ   Mossoko, Mathias ⁱ   Lacroix, Audrey ^b   Delaporte, Eric ^b   Sanchez Lockhart, Mariano ^d,e   Sall, Amadou A ^h   Muyembe Tamfum, Jean Jacques ^a,c   Peeters, Martine ^b   Palacios, Gustavo ^d   Ahuka Mundeke, Steve ^a,c   more..

^a Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa   (Democratic Republic Congo)

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

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g School of Advanced Military Studies   (United States)

^h INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

ⁱ Ministere de la Sante Publique   (Democratic Republic Congo)

^j WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

^l Radiological and Nuclear Defense Joint Project Management Office for Guardian   (United States)

^m Tauri Group   (United States)

ⁿ ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; EBOLA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; GENETICS; GENOMICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLA VACCINES; EBOLAVIRUS; GENOMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85065874808     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30118-5     Document Type: Article

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