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

Kuhn JH1, Lofts LL2, Kugelman JR2, Smither SJ3, Lever MS3, van der Groen G4, Johnson KM5, Radoshitzky SR2, Bavari S2, Jahrling PB6, Towner JS7, Nichol ST7, Palacios G2.

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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.