Newly discovered Ebola virus associated with hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Uganda

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Towner, Jonathan S ^a   Sealy, Tara K ^a   Khristova, Marina L ^a   Albariño, César G ^a   Conlan, Sean ^b   Reeder, Serena A ^a   Quan, Phenix Lan ^b   Lipkin, W Ian ^b   Downing, Robert ^a   Tappero, Jordan W ^a   Okware, Samuel ^c   Lutwama, Julius ^d   Bakamutumaho, Barnabas ^d   Kayiwa, John ^d   Comer, James A ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a  

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

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BUNDIBUGYO EBOLAVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; UGANDA; VIRUS STRAIN; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMALIA; COTE D'IVOIRE EBOLAVIRUS; EBOLA VIRUS;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; RNA, VIRAL; UGANDA;

EID: 57149120780     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000212     Document Type: Article

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