Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Weingartl, Hana M ^a,b   Embury Hyatt, Carissa ^a   Nfon, Charles ^a   Leung, Anders ^c   Smith, Greg ^a   Kobinger, Gary ^b,c  

^a CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIMATE DISEASE; SWINE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; EBOLAVIRUS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; LUNG; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PRIMATE DISEASES; SWINE;

EID: 84870843021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00811     Document Type: Article

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