Genotypic anomaly in ebola virus strains circulating in magazine wharf Area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015

S. L. Smits; S. D. Pas; C. B. Reusken; B. L. Haagmans; P. Pertile; C. Cancedda; K. Dierberg; I. Wurie; A. Kamara; D. Kargbo; S. L. Caddy; Armando Arias; L. Thorne; J. Lu; U. Jah; I. Goodfellow; M. P. Koopmans

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.40.30035

Genotypic anomaly in ebola virus strains circulating in magazine wharf Area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015

S. L. Smits
, S. D. Pas
, C. B. Reusken
, B. L. Haagmans
, P. Pertile
, C. Cancedda
, K. Dierberg
, I. Wurie
, A. Kamara
, D. Kargbo
, S. L. Caddy
, Armando Arias
, L. Thorne
, J. Lu
, U. Jah
, I. Goodfellow
, M. P. Koopmans

University of Cambridge

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Eurosurveillance (Online Edition)
Volume	20
Issue number	40
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1025-496X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.40.30035
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Virology
Africa
Article
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
Ebolavirus
evolution
genetic variability
genome analysis
haplotype
human
mutation
nonhuman
nucleotide sequence
sequence alignment
Sierra Leone
virus genome
virus strain
Ebola virus
surveillance
viral infections

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Smits, S. L., Pas, S. D., Reusken, C. B., Haagmans, B. L., Pertile, P., Cancedda, C., Dierberg, K., Wurie, I., Kamara, A., Kargbo, D., Caddy, S. L., Arias, A., Thorne, L., Lu, J., Jah, U., Goodfellow, I., & Koopmans, M. P. (2015). Genotypic anomaly in ebola virus strains circulating in magazine wharf Area, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2015. Eurosurveillance (Online Edition), 20(40). https://doi.org/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

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