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Ebola virus is evolving but not changing: no evidence for functional change in EBOV from 1976 to the 2014 outbreak

2015-01-27

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The Ebola epidemic is having a devastating impact in West Africa. Sequencing of Ebola viruses from infected individuals has revealed extensive genetic variation, leading to speculation that the virus may be adapting to the human host and accounting for the scale of the 2014 outbreak. We show that so far there is no evidence for adaptation of EBOV to humans. We analyze the putatively functional changes associated w...

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Literature Corpus work: bc74b752-453f-59e8-b101-c5955ef9e654
DOI: 10.1101/014480

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