Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1847-1851

  Swanepoel, Robert ^a   Smit, Sheilagh B ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^b   Formenty, Pierre ^c   Leman, Patricia A ^a   Kemp, Alan ^a   Burt, Felicity J ^d   Grobbelaar, Antoinette A ^a   Croft, Janice ^a   Bausch, Daniel G ^e   Zeller, Hervé ^f   Leirs, Herwig ^g,h   Braack, L E O ⁱ   Libande, Modeste L ^j   Zaki, Sherif ^b   Nichol, Stuart T ^b   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^b   Paweska, Janusz T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

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

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^h AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

ⁱ Conservation International ^*  (South Africa)

^j Department of Health ^*  (Democratic Republic Congo)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FAUNA; HUMAN; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 37049007468     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1312.071115     Document Type: Article

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