| Literature DB >> 26539753 |
Saskia L Smits1, Suzan D Pas, Chantal B Reusken, Bart L Haagmans, Peirro Pertile, Corrado Cancedda, Kerry Dierberg, Isata Wurie, Abdul Kamara, David Kargbo, Sarah L Caddy, Armando Arias, Lucy Thorne, Jia Lu, Umaru Jah, Ian Goodfellow, Marion P Koopmans.
Abstract
The Magazine Wharf area, Freetown, Sierra Leone was a focus of ongoing Ebola virus transmission from late June 2015. Viral genomes linked to this area contain a series of 13 T to C substitutions in a 150 base pair intergenic region downstream of viral protein 40 open reading frame, similar to the Ebolavirus/H.sapiens-wt/SLE/2014/Makona-J0169 strain (J0169) detected in the same town in November 2014. This suggests that recently circulating viruses from Freetown descend from a J0169-like virus.Entities:
Keywords: Ebola virus; surveillance; viral infections
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26539753 PMCID: PMC4946620 DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.40.30035
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Euro Surveill ISSN: 1025-496X