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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 40(20), 2015

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2015.20.40.30035

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Genotypic anomaly in Ebola virus strains circulating in Magazine Wharf area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015

Journal article published in 2015 by Smits Sl, Saskia L. Smits, Suzan D. Pas, Pas Sd, Reusken Cb, Chantal B. Reusken, Bart L. Haagmans, Peirro Pertile, Haagmans Bl, Corrado Cancedda, Kerry Dierberg, Isata Wurie, Abdul Kamara, David Kargbo, Sarah L. Caddy and other authors.
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Abstract

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.sapienswt/ SLE/2014/Makona-J0169 strain (J0169) detected in the same town in November 2014. This suggests that recently circulating viruses from Freetown descend from a J0169-like virus. © 2015, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved.