Filoviruses in bats: Current knowledge and future directions

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1759-1788

  Olival, Kevin J ^a   Hayman, David T S ^b,c,d  

^a ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Disease ecology; Ebola; Emerging infectious diseases; Filovirus; Lloviu; Marburg; Ravn; Review

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

BAT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FILOVIRUS; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84899156584     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6041759     Document Type: Review

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