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Genotypic anomaly in Ebola virus strains circulating in Magazine Wharf area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Jan 2015
Smits Saskia L, Pas Suzan D, Reusken Chantal B, Haagmans Bart L, Pertile Peirro, Cancedda Corrado, Dierberg Kerry, Wurie Isata, Kamara Abdul, Kargbo David, Caddy Sarah L, Arias Armando, Thorne Lucy, Lu Jia, Jah Umaru, Goodfellow Ian, Koopmans Marion P
Abstract excerpt
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...
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