Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak
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- 12 September 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 345 (6202) , 1369-1372
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259657
Abstract
Evolution of Ebola virus over time: The high rate of mortality in the current Ebola epidemic has made it difficult for researchers to collect samples of the virus and study its evolution. Gire et al. describe Ebola epidemiology on the basis of 99 whole-genome sequences, including samples from 78 affected individuals. The authors analyzed changes in the viral sequence and conclude that the current outbreak probably resulted from the spread of the virus from central Africa in the past decade. The outbreak started from a single transmission event from an unknown animal reservoir into the human population. Two viral lineages from Guinea then spread from person to person into Sierra Leone. Science , this issue p. 1369This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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