2014-12-30Zeitschriftenartikel
Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic
Saéz, Almudena Marí; Weiss, Sabrina; Nowak, Kathrin; Lapeyre, Vincent; Zimmermann, Fee; Düx, Ariane; Kühl, Hjalmar S.; Kaba, Moussa; Regnaut, Sebastien; Merkel, Kevin; Sachse, Andreas; Thiesen, Ulla; Villányi, Lili; Boesch, Christophe; Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek; Radonić, Aleksandar; Nitsche, Andreas; Leendertz, Siv Aina J.; Petterson, Stefan; Becker, Stephan; Schaade, Lars; Fahr, Jakob; Gogarten, Jan F.; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien; Leendertz, Fabian
The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea. We investigated the zoonotic origins of the epidemic using wildlife ...
