Dead or alive: Animal sampling during Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans

Emerging Health Threats Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Olson, Sarah H ^a,b   Reed, Patricia ^c   Cameron, Kenneth N ^c   Ssebide, Benard J ^d   Johnson, Christine K ^e   Morse, Stephen S ^e,f   Karesh, William B ^g   Mazet, Jonna A K ^e   Joly, Damien O ^a  

^a Wildlife Conservation Society   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Goma Office   (Congo)

^d Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project   (Uganda)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^g ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease outbreaks; Ebolavirus; Ecology; Epidemiology; Vertebrates; Veterinarians

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BAT; CARCASS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOMESTIC PIG; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84869752880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17528550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v5i0.9134     Document Type: Review

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