Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic

Dudas, Gytis; Max Carvalho, Luiz; Bedford, Trevor; J. Tatem, Andrew; Baele, Guy; R. Faria, Nuno; J. Park, Daniel; T. Ladner, Jason; Arias, Armando; Asogun, Danny; Bielejec, Filip; Caddy, Sarah; Cotten, Matthew; D’ambrozio, Jonathan; Dellicour, Simon; Di, Antonino; W. Diclaro, Joseph; Duraffour, Sophie; J. Elmore, Michael; Fakoli, Lawrence; Faye, Ousmane; L. Gilbert, Merle; M. Gevao, Sahr; Gire, Stephen; Gladden-Young, Adrianne; Gnirke, Andreas; Goba, Augustine; S. Grant, Donald; L. Haagmans, Bart; A. Hiscox, Julian; Jah, Umaru; R. Kugelman, Jeffrey; Liu, Di; Lu, Jia; M. Malboeuf, Christine; Mate, Suzanne; A. Matthews, David; B. Matranga, Christian; W. Meredith, Luke; Qu, James; Quick, Joshua; D. Pas, Suzan; V. T. Phan, My; Pollakis, Georgios; Reusken, Chantal; Sánchez-Lockhart, Mariano; F. Schaffner, S.; S. Schieffelin, John; Sealfon, Rachel; Simon‐Lorière, Etienne; L. Smits, Saskia; Stoecker, Kilian; Thorne, Lucy; Tobin, Ekaete; Vandi, Mohamed; J. Watson, Simon; West, Kendra; Whitmer, Shannon; R. Wiley, Michael; Winnicki, S; Wohl, Shirlee; Wölfel, Roman; L. Yozwiak, Nathan; G. Andersen, Kristian; O. Blyden, Sylvia; K. Bolay, Fatorma; W. Carroll, Miles; Dahn, Bernice; Diallo, Boubacar; Formenty, Pierre; Fraser, Christophe; F. Gao, George; F. Garry, Robert; Goodfellow, Ian; Günther, Stephan; Happi, Christian; C. Holmes, Edward; Kargbo, Brima; Keïta, Sakoba; Kellam, Paul; Koopmans, Marion; H. Kuhn, Jens; J. Loman, Nicholas; Magassouba, N’Faly; Naidoo, Dhamari; T. Nichol, Stuart; Nyenswah, Tolbert; Palacios, Gustavo; G. Pybus, Oliver; C. Sabeti, Pardis; A. Sall, Amadou; Ströher, Ute; Wurie, Isatta; A. Suchard, Marc; Lemey, Philippe; Rambaut, Andrew

doi:10.1038/nature22040

Public

Virus genomes reveal factors that spread and sustained the Ebola epidemic

Published in Nature • Apr 1, 2017

Authors:

Gytis Dudas

Luiz Max Carvalho

Trevor Bedford

Abstract

The 2013–2016 West African epidemic caused by the Ebola virus was of unprecedented magnitude, duration and impact. Here we reconstruct the dispersal, proliferation and decline of Ebola virus throughout the region by analysing 1,610 Ebola virus genomes, which represent over 5% of the known cases. We ...

Subject

Ebola virus

Virology

Genome

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!