Reidentification of Ebola Virus E718 and ME as Ebola Virus/H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Ecran

Jens H Kuhn; Loreen L Lofts; Jeffrey R Kugelman; Sophie J Smither; Mark S Lever; Guido van der Groen; Karl M Johnson; Sheli R Radoshitzky; Sina Bavari; Peter B Jahrling; Jonathan S Towner; Stuart T Nichol; Gustavo Palacios

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01178-14

Reidentification of Ebola Virus E718 and ME as Ebola Virus/H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Ecran

Genome Announc. 2014 Nov 20;2(6):e01178-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01178-14.

Affiliations

¹ Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA kuhnjens@mail.nih.gov.
² United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
³ Biomedical Sciences Department, Dstl, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom.
⁴ Prins Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (ITG), Antwerp, Belgium.
⁵ Retired, Portland, Oregon, USA.
⁶ Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, USA.
⁷ Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Ebola virus (EBOV) was discovered in 1976 around Yambuku, Zaire. A lack of nomenclature standards resulted in a variety of designations for each isolate, leading to confusion in the literature and databases. We sequenced the genome of isolate E718/ME/Ecran and unified the various designations under Ebola virus/H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Ecran.

Grants and funding

HHSN272200700016I/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States