Nomenclature- and Database-Compatible Names for the Two Ebola Virus Variants that Emerged in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2014

In 2014, Ebola virus (EBOV) was identified as the etiological agent of a large and still expanding outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa and a much more confined EVD outbreak in Middle Africa. Epidemiological and evolutionary analyses confirmed that all cases of both outbreaks are con...

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Main Authors: Kuhn, Jens H., Andersen, Kristian G., Baize, Sylvain, Bào, Yīmíng, Bavari, Sina, Berthet, Nicolas, Blinkova, Olga, Brister, J. Rodney, Clawson, Anna N., Fair, Joseph, Gabriel, Martin, Garry, Robert F., Gire, Stephen K., Goba, Augustine, Gonzalez, Jean-Paul, Günther, Stephan, Happi, Christian T., Jahrling, Peter B., Kapetshi, Jimmy, Kobinger, Gary, Kugelman, Jeffrey R., Leroy, Eric M., Maganga, Gael Darren, Mbala, Placide K., Moses, Lina M., Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean-Jacques, N’Faly, Magassouba, Nichol, Stuart T., Omilabu, Sunday A., Palacios, Gustavo, Park, Daniel J., Paweska, Janusz T., Radoshitzky, Sheli R., Rossi, Cynthia A., Sabeti, Pardis C., Schieffelin, John S., Schoepp, Randal J., Sealfon, Rachel, Swanepoel, Robert, Towner, Jonathan S., Wada, Jiro, Wauquier, Nadia, Yozwiak, Nathan L., Formenty, Pierre
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: MDPI 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246247/