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Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea

Overview of attention for article published in New England Journal of Medicine, April 2014
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Title
Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea
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New England Journal of Medicine, April 2014
DOI 10.1056/nejmoa1404505
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Authors

Sylvain Baize, Delphine Pannetier, Lisa Oestereich, Toni Rieger, Lamine Koivogui, N'Faly Magassouba, Barrè Soropogui, Mamadou Saliou Sow, Sakoba Keïta, Hilde De Clerck, Amanda Tiffany, Gemma Dominguez, Mathieu Loua, Alexis Traoré, Moussa Kolié, Emmanuel Roland Malano, Emmanuel Heleze, Anne Bocquin, Stephane Mély, Hervé Raoul, Valérie Caro, Dániel Cadar, Martin Gabriel, Meike Pahlmann, Dennis Tappe, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Benido Impouma, Abdoul Karim Diallo, Pierre Formenty, Michel Van Herp, Stephan Günther

Abstract

In March 2014, the World Health Organization was notified of an outbreak of a communicable disease characterized by fever, severe diarrhea, vomiting, and a high fatality rate in Guinea. Virologic investigation identified Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) as the causative agent. Full-length genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis showed that EBOV from Guinea forms a separate clade in relationship to the known EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. Epidemiologic investigation linked the laboratory-confirmed cases with the presumed first fatality of the outbreak in December 2013. This study demonstrates the emergence of a new EBOV strain in Guinea.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 23 2%
United Kingdom 18 1%
Germany 5 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Japan 4 <1%
Australia 3 <1%
Italy 3 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Other 27 2%
Unknown 1389 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 261 18%
Student > Bachelor 236 16%
Researcher 231 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 185 12%
Student > Postgraduate 90 6%
Other 271 18%
Unknown 208 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 378 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 311 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 111 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 82 6%
Social Sciences 69 5%
Other 272 18%
Unknown 259 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1331. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2024.
All research outputs
#9,781
of 25,523,622 outputs
Outputs from New England Journal of Medicine
#478
of 32,545 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33
of 224,620 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New England Journal of Medicine
#2
of 267 outputs
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