Sequenced Ebola Strains Inform Aspects of Current Epidemic (6 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Sequenced Ebola Strains Inform Aspects of Current Epidemic (6 of 8)

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Humarr Khan (second from left), Augustine Goba (fourth from left), Kristian Anderson (fifth from left), and Stephen Gire (sixth from left), are shown in Kenema, Sierra Leone. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 Aug. 2014, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Stephen K. Gire at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak."

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Pardis C. Sabeti

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