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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Mate SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4711355 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The New England journal of medicine 20151014 25
A suspected case of sexual transmission from a male survivor of Ebola virus disease (EVD) to his female partner (the patient in this report) occurred in Liberia in March 2015. Ebola virus (EBOV) genomes assembled from blood samples from the patient and a semen sample from the survivor were consistent with direct transmission. The genomes shared three substitutions that were absent from all other Western African EBOV sequences and that were distinct from the last documented transmission chain in ...[more]