Clinical Sequencing Uncovers Origins and Evolution of Lassa Virus

Affiliations

• ¹ FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: andersen@scripps.edu.
• ² FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC H2V 2S9, Canada.
• ³ Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
• ⁴ Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
• ⁵ FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
• ⁶ Tulane Health Sciences Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.
• ⁷ Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria; Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Redeemer's University, Redemption City, Osun State, Nigeria.
• ⁸ Lassa Fever Laboratory, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.
• ⁹ Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria.
• ¹⁰ Lassa Fever Laboratory, Kenema Government Hospital, Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone; Eastern Polytechnic College, Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.
• ¹¹ Zalgen Labs, Germantown, MD 20876, USA.
• ¹² FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
• ¹⁵ College of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
• ¹⁶ Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.
• ¹⁷ The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
• ¹⁸ The University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville, TX 77030, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, 20259 Hamburg, Germany.
• ²⁰ NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
• ²¹ Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Irrua, Edo State, Nigeria; Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Redeemer's University, Redemption City, Osun State, Nigeria. Electronic address: happic@run.edu.ng.
• ²² FAS Center for Systems Biology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: psabeti@oeb.harvard.edu.