An Ebola virus-centered knowledge base
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An Ebola virus-centered knowledge base
Ebola virus (EBOV), of the family Filoviridae viruses, is a NIAID category A, lethal human pathogen. It is responsible for causing Ebola virus disease (EVD) that is a severe hemorrhagic fever and has a cumulative death rate of 41% in the ongoing epidemic in West Africa. There is an ever-increasing need to consolidate and make available all the knowledge that we possess on EBOV, even if it is co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Database
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1758-0463
DOI: 10.1093/database/bav049