New filovirus disease classification and nomenclature

Publication date

2019-05

Authors

hoepelman

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Editorial

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Abstract

The recent large outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Western Africa resulted in greatly increased accumulation of human genotypic, phenotypic and clinical data, and improved our understanding of the spectrum of clinical manifestations. As a result, the WHO disease classification of EVD underwent major revision.

Keywords

Taverne, Infectious Diseases, General Immunology and Microbiology, Microbiology, Journal Article

Citation

hoepelman 2019, 'New filovirus disease classification and nomenclature', Nature Reviews. Microbiology, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 261-263. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0187-4