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.
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The authors thank Laura Bollinger (US National Institutes of Health (NIH)/US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA) for critically reviewing the manuscript. This work was supported in part through Battelle Memorial Institute’s prime contract with the NIAID under Contract No. HHSN272200700016I (J.H.K.). This project was funded in part with federal funds from the National Cancer Institute, NIH, under Contract No. HHSN261200800001E (I.C.). G.I. is grateful for support from the Italian Ministry of Health, grant Ricerca Corrente, Research Programme n.1. The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (D.G.B.) is funded by the UK Department of Health and Social Care.
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Kuhn, J.H., Adachi, T., Adhikari, N.K.J. et al. New filovirus disease classification and nomenclature. Nat Rev Microbiol 17, 261–263 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-019-0187-4
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