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Ebola One Year Later: Genomics and Public Health

World Health Organization: One year into the Ebola epidemic: a deadly, tenacious and unforgiving virus,  January 2015

CDC information: Updated cumulative reported cases graphs, Jan 16

CDC information: Updated case counts, Jan 16

Complete genome sequences of three Ebola virus isolates from the 2014 outbreak in West Africa. 
Hoenen T, et al. Genome Announc. 2014 Dec 18;2(6).

365 days: 2014 in science. 
Morello L, et al. Nature. 2014 Dec 18;516(7531):300-3.

Epidemiological and viral genomic sequence analysis of the 2014 Ebola outbreak reveals clustered transmission. 
Scarpino SV, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2014 Dec 15

Evaluation of the potential impact of Ebola virus genomic drift on the efficacy of sequence-based candidate therapeutics
Kugelman JR, et al. mBio 2015; 6(1): e02227-14.

Comment:
USAMRIID-led study tracks genomic changes in Ebola virus in recent history
GenomeWeb, Jan 20, 2015.

Next generation sequencing reveals a controlled immune response to Zaire Ebola virus challenge in cynomolgus macaques immunized with VSVΔG/EBOVgp
Barrenas F, et al. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2015 Jan 14.

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