Genomic analysis of filoviruses associated with four viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012

Authors :: Pierre E. Rollin
Lisa Wiggleton Guerrero
Ute Ströher
Trevor Shoemaker
Eric Bergeron
J.J. Muyembe
Kimberly A. Dodd
Alex Tumusiime
Stephen Balinandi
Bobbie R. Erickson
Marina L. Khristova
Brian H. Bird
S. Campbell
César G. Albariño
Barbara Knust
Stuart T. Nichol
Christina F. Spiropoulou
Deborah Cannon
Joseph F. Wamala
Aridth Gibbons
Source :: Virology. 442(2):97-100
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2013.
Abstract: In 2012, an unprecedented number of four distinct, partially overlapping filovirus-associated viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks were detected in equatorial Africa. Analysis of complete virus genome sequences confirmed the reemergence of Sudan virus and Marburg virus in Uganda, and the first emergence of Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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