Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.

@article{Baize2014EmergenceOZ,
  title={Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.},
  author={Sylvain Baize and Delphine Pannetier and Lisa Oestereich and Toni Rieger and Lamine Koivogui and N'Faly Magassouba and Barr{\'e} Soropogui and Mamadou S Sow and Sakoba Ke{\"i}ta and Hilde de Clerck and Amanda Tiffany and Gemma Jim{\'e}nez Dom{\'i}nguez and Mathieu Loua and Alexis Traor{\'e} and Moussa Koli{\'e} and Emmanuel Roland Malano and Emmanuel Heleze and Anne Bocquin and St{\'e}phane M{\'e}ly and Herv{\'e} Raoul and Valérie Caro and D{\'a}niel Cadar and Martin Gabriel and Meike Pahlmann and Dennis Tappe and Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit and Benido Impouma and Abdoul Karim Diallo and Pierre B. H. Formenty and Michel van Herp and Stephan G{\"u}nther},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2014},
  volume={371 15},
  pages={
          1418-25
        }
}
In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of a communicable disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and a high fatality rate in Guinea. [] Key Result Full-length genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis showed that EBOV from Guinea forms a separate clade in relationship to the known EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon.
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