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Molecular analysis of the 2012 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak.
Cell reports. Medicine - 17 Aug 2021
Hulseberg Christine E, Kumar Raina, Di Paola Nicholas, Larson Peter, Nagle Elyse R, Richardson Joshua, Hanson Jarod, Wauquier Nadia, Fair Joseph N, Makuwa Maria, Mulembakani Prime, Muyembe-Tamfum Jean-Jacques, Schoepp Randal J, Sanchez-Lockhart Mariano, Palacios Gustavo F, Kuhn Jens H, Kugelman Jeffrey R
Abstract excerpt
Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) is one of four ebolaviruses known to cause disease in humans. Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreaks occurred in 2007-2008 in Bundibugyo District, Uganda, and in 2012 in Isiro, Province Orientale, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The 2012 BVD outbreak resulted in 38 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection, 13 of whom died. However, only 4 BDBV specimens from the 2012 outbreak have...
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