Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus
(EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission …

Animal experiments have shown that nonhuman primates, cats, ferrets, hamsters, rabbits,
and bats can be infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

Seven years after the declaration of the first epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea, the
country faced a new outbreak—between 14 February and 19 June 2021—near the …

Genome sequencing has been widely deployed to study the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with
more than 90,000 genome sequences uploaded to the GISAID database. We published a …

Background The burden and influence of health-care associated severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is unknown. We aimed to examine the …

Genome sequencing has become a powerful tool for studying emerging infectious diseases;
however, genome sequencing directly from clinical samples (ie, without isolation and …

The year 2020 was a turning point in history and in global health. The COVID-19 pandemic
has highlighted the potential for deadly epidemic-prone diseases to overwhelm our …

Monitoring the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and reconstructing transmission chains has become
a major public health focus for many governments around the world. The modest mutation …

Abstract The 2013–2016 West African epidemic caused by the Ebola virus was of
unprecedented magnitude, duration and impact. Here we reconstruct the dispersal …