About the Authors
- Gilda Grard
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gilda Grard, Joseph N. Fair, Deanna Lee
Affiliations Viral Emergent Diseases unit, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, MIVEGEC, UMR (IRD 224 - CNRS 5290 - UM1 - UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
- Joseph N. Fair
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gilda Grard, Joseph N. Fair, Deanna Lee
Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, Incorporated, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Deanna Lee
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gilda Grard, Joseph N. Fair, Deanna Lee
Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Elizabeth Slikas
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Imke Steffen
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Jean-Jacques Muyembe
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Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Taylor Sittler
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Narayanan Veeraraghavan
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Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- J. Graham Ruby
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Affiliations Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Chunlin Wang
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Maria Makuwa
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Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Prime Mulembakani
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Affiliation Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Robert B. Tesh
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Jonna Mazet
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
- Anne W. Rimoin
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Travis Taylor
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Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, Incorporated, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Bradley S. Schneider
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Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, Incorporated, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Graham Simmons
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eric Delwart
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Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Nathan D. Wolfe
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Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, Incorporated, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Charles Y. Chiu
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* E-mail: charles.chiu@ucsf.edu (CYC); eric.leroy@ird.fr (EML)
Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eric M. Leroy
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* E-mail: charles.chiu@ucsf.edu (CYC); eric.leroy@ird.fr (EML)
Affiliations Viral Emergent Diseases unit, Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, Franceville, Gabon, MIVEGEC, UMR (IRD 224 - CNRS 5290 - UM1 - UM2), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
Competing Interests
The authors have filed a patent application related to BASV. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GG JNF DL GS ED NDW CYC EML. Performed the experiments: GG DL ES IS RBT. Analyzed the data: GG JNF DL J-JM NV MM PM GS ED NDW CYC EML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS JGR CW RBT JM AWR TT BSS GS ED NDW CYC EML. Wrote the paper: GG JNF DL IS RBT GS ED NDW CYC EML. Obtained consents from patients and their families: PM.