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Amino acid mutations in Ebola virus glycoprotein of the 2014 epidemic.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 2015
Giovanetti Marta, Grifoni Alba, Lo Presti Alessandra, Cella Eleonora, Montesano Carla, Zehender Gianguglielmo, Colizzi Vittorio, Amicosante Massimo, Ciccozzi Massimo
Abstract excerpt
Zaire Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped non-segmented negative strand RNA virus of 19 kb in length belonging to the family Filoviridae. The virus was isolated and identified in 1976 during the epidemic of hemorrhagic fever in Zaire. The most recent outbreak of EBOV among humans, was that occurred in the forested areas of south eastern Guinea, that began in February 2014 and is still ongoing. The recent Ebola...
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