Isolation and Phylogenetic Characterization of Ebola Viruses Causing Different Outbreaks in Gabon

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-62

  Georges Courbot, Marie Claude ^a   Sanchez, Anthony ^b   Lu, Chang Yong ^a   Baize, Sylvain ^a   Leroy, Eric ^a   Lansout Soukate, Joseph ^a   Tévi Bénissan, Carole ^a   Georges, Alain J ^a   Trappier, Sam G ^b   Zaki, Sherif R ^b   Swanepoel, Robert ^c   Leman, Patricia A ^c   Rollin, Pierre E ^b   Peters, Clarence J ^b   Nichol, Stuart T ^b   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^b  

^a CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c National Institute for Virology   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APE DISEASE; ARTICLE; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GABON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMALS; APE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; GABON; GENES, VIRAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0030625060     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0301.970107     Document Type: Article

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