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3 entries match Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500] · Microbiology & Virology [C01.748] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]

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2014 CE

#10928

Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.

BAIZE, Sylvain PANNETIER, Delphine OESTEREICH, Lisa & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Gu&ea…

1977 CE

#10923

Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

JOHNSON, Karl M.
LANGE, James V.
LANGE, James V. WEBB, Patricia & et al.

The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …

1986 CE

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

CLAVEL, François GUÉTARD, D. BRUN-VEZINET, François & et al.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…