Long-term survival of an urban fruit bat seropositive for ebola and lagos bat viruses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Hayman, David T S ^a   Emmerich, Petra ^d   Yu, Meng ^e   Wang, Lin Fa ^e   Suu Ire, Richard ^f   Fooks, Anthony R ^c,g   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b   Wood, James L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f Wildlife Division of the Ghana Forestry Commission   (Ghana)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; EBOLA VIRUS; EIDOLON HELVUM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GHANA; HYPSIGNATHUS MONSTROSUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LAGOS BAT LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; RABIES VIRUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TELEMETRY; URBAN AREA; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; SURVIVAL; TIME; VIROLOGY;

EIDOLON HELVUM; FILOVIRIDAE; LAGOS BAT VIRUS; LYSSAVIRUS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHIROPTERA; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; LYSSAVIRUS; MALE; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77957786166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011978     Document Type: Article

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