The guanine monophosphate synthetase gene (GMPS), which encodes a protein involved in the de novo synthesis of guanine nucleotides (essential for DNA and RNA synthesis and elevated in rapidly growing cells) was highly significantly increased in expression in PBMC from N'Dama after 14 dpi post-infection until the end of the time course relative to pre-infection levels. The gene discussed is GMPS; the disease is infection.