First laboratory confirmation and sequencing of Zaire ebolavirus in Uganda following two independent introductions of cases from the 10th Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2019.

• Main Authors: Luke Nyakarahuka (Author), Sophia Mulei (Author), Shannon Whitmer (Author), Kyondo Jackson (Author), Alex Tumusiime (Author), Amy Schuh (Author), Jimmy Baluku (Author), Allison Joyce (Author), Felix Ocom (Author), Jayne B Tusiime (Author), Joel M Montgomery (Author), Stephen Balinandi (Author), Julius J Lutwama (Author), John D Klena (Author), Trevor R Shoemaker (Author), 'Kasese EVD Outbreak Response Team' (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Uganda established a domestic Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) testing capacity in 2010 in response to the increasing occurrence of filovirus outbreaks. In July 2018, the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) experienced its 10th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and for the duration of the o...