Origin and transmission of Ebola virus outbreak

Esther Lau

Nature Reviews Genetics

(2014)

doi:10.1038/nrg3823

Published online: 09 September 2014

In response to the recent large-scale outbreak of Ebola virus disease, a team of researchers used high-throughput sequencing to study diversity among 99 Ebola virus genomes from 78 patients in Sierra Leone. Comparison with previous outbreak strains revealed that the viruses in this epidemic are likely to have spread from…