LEMEY, Phillippe
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
2014 CE
#10778
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
2016 CE
#10779
1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America.
By genetic analysis of HIV, Worobey, Lemey and colleagues from the social sciences "cleared" Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who previously had been identified by name as Patient Zero--the source of the epi…
2022 CE
#14168
The Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Worobey and colleagues showed: 1) The earliest case of an abnormal pneumonia was first reported to the World Health Organization on Dec. 31, 2019. 2) Using basic epidemiology going back to the now iconic plot maps dra…
