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Edited by Eckard Wimmer, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and approved July 23, 2014 (received for review December 17, 2013)
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- Jan Felix Drexlera,1,
- Gilda Grardb,1,
- Alexander N. Lukashevc,
- Liubov I. Kozlovskayac,
- Sindy Böttcherd,
- Gökhan Uslue,
- Johan Reimerinke,
- Anatoly P. Gmylc,f,
- Raphaël Taty-Tatyg,
- Sonia Etenna Lekana-Doukib,
- Dieudonné Nkogheb,
- Anna M. Eis-Hübingera,
- Sabine Diedrichd,
- Marion Koopmanse,
- Eric M. Leroyb,h,1,2, and
- Christian Drostena,1,2
- aInstitute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, 53127 Bonn, Germany;
- bCentre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville, BP 769 Franceville, Gabon;
- cChumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Moscow 142782, Russia;
- dRobert Koch Institute, National Reference Laboratory for Poliomyelitis and Enteroviruses, 13302 Berlin, Germany;
- eNetherlands Center for Infectious Disease Control, 3720, Bilthoven, The Netherlands;
- fLomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia;
- gMinistry of Health, Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo; and
- hInstitut de Recherche pour le Développement, Unité Mixte de Recherche 224 (Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôle), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Unité Mixte 1, 34032 Montpellier, France
Edited by Eckard Wimmer, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and approved July 23, 2014 (received for review December 17, 2013)
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↵1J.F.D., G.G., E.M.L., and C.D. contributed equally to this work.
- ↵2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: drosten{at}virology-bonn.de or eric.leroy{at}ird.fr.
Author contributions: J.F.D., E.M.L., and C.D. designed research; J.F.D., G.G., A.N.L., L.I.K., S.B., G.U., J.R., S.E.L.-D., and S.D. performed research; G.G., A.P.G., R.T.-T., D.N., and M.K. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; J.F.D., A.N.L., A.M.E.-H., S.D., M.K., E.M.L., and C.D. analyzed data; and J.F.D., E.M.L., and C.D. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. JF838278–JF838290).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1323502111/-/DCSupplemental.
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