A New Approach for Monitoring Ebolavirus in Wild Great Apes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Reed, Patricia E ^a   Mulangu, Sabue ^b   Cameron, Kenneth N ^a   Ondzie, Alain U ^a   Joly, Damien ^a,g   Bermejo, Magdalena ^c   Rouquet, Pierre ^d   Fabozzi, Giulia ^b   Bailey, Michael ^b   Shen, Zhimin ^b   Keele, Brandon F ^e   Hahn, Beatrice ^f,h   Karesh, William B ^a,i   Sullivan, Nancy J ^b  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d ECOFAC ^*  (Gabon)

^e Nanobiology Program   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^g METABIOTA INC   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; APE; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EBOLA VIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GORILLA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; APE DISEASES; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FECES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; APE DISEASES; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FECES; GORILLA GORILLA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA;

EID: 84907573394     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003143     Document Type: Article

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