Reidentification of Ebola Virus E718 and ME as Ebola Virus/H.sapiens-tc/COD/1976/Yambuku-Ecran.
J Thomas BeattyLoreen L LoftsJeffrey R KugelmanSophie J SmitherMark S LeverGuido van der GroenKarl M JohnsonSheli R RadoshitzkySina BavariPeter B JahrlingJonathan S TownerStuart T NicholGustavo F PalaciosPublished in: Genome announcements (2014)
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.