How Ebola has been evolving in West Africa

• Si-Qing Liu ; Simon Rayner ; Bo Zhang ^[1]
  1. [1] Wuhan Institute Of Virology

     Wuhan Institute Of Virology

     China

     
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 23, Nº. 7, 2015, págs. 387-388
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa has generated fears of a global epidemic. Particularly, estimates of higher substitution rates have raised concerns about increased transmissibility or virulence. A recent study using a more comprehensive datasets demonstrates lower variation, highlighting the importance of representative datasets and limitations of computational modelling.