Ebola virus antibodies in fruit bats, Ghana, West Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1207-1209

  Hayman, David T S ^a,b,c,d   Yu, Meng ^e   Crameri, Gary ^e   Wang, Lin Fa ^e   Suu Ire, Richard ^f   Wood, James L N ^a   Cunningham, Andrew A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f Ghana Forestry Commission   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIROPTERA; EBOLAVIRUS; GHANA; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84862584537     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1807.111654     Document Type: Letter

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