2015-10-08
Genotypic anomaly in ebola virus strains circulating in magazine wharf Area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015
Publication
Publication
Eurosurveillance , Volume 20 - Issue 40
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.sapienswt/ 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.
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| doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.40.30035, hdl.handle.net/1765/87781 | |
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| Organisation | Department of Virology |
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Smits, S., Pas, S., Reusken, C., Haagmans, B., Pertile, P., Cancedda, C., … Koopmans, M., D.V.M. (2015). Genotypic anomaly in ebola virus strains circulating in magazine wharf Area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015. Eurosurveillance, 20(40). doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.40.30035 |
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