Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-23

  Marí Saéz, Almudena ^a   Weiss, Sabrina ^b,m,n   Nowak, Kathrin ^b   Lapeyre, Vincent ^c   Zimmermann, Fee ^b   Düx, Ariane ^b   Kühl, Hjalmar S ^c,d   Kaba, Moussa ^c   Regnaut, Sebastien ^c   Merkel, Kevin ^b   Sachse, Andreas ^b   Thiesen, Ulla ^b   Villányi, Lili ^b   Boesch, Christophe ^c   Dabrowski, Piotr W ^b   Radonić, Aleksandar ^b   Nitsche, Andreas ^b   Leendertz, Siv Aina J ^b   Petterson, Stefan ^e   Becker, Stephan ^f   Krähling, Verena ^f   Couacy Hymann, Emmanuel ^g   Akoua Koffi, Chantal ^h   Weber, Natalie ⁱ   Schaade, Lars ^b   Fahr, Jakob ^j,k   Borchert, Matthias ^a   Gogarten, Jan F ^b,c,l   Calvignac Spencer, Sébastien ^b   Leendertz, Fabian H ^b   more..

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research ^*  (Sweden)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^g Laboratoire National d'Appui au Développement Agricole Laboratoire Central de la Pathologie Animal   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^h Department of Anthropology and Sociology   (Côte d’Ivoire)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^k TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^l MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^m EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

ⁿ PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Bat; Ebola; West Africa; Wildlife; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEST AFRICAN; WILDLIFE; ZOONOSIS; AFRICA; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; EBOLAVIRUS; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84923186283     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/emmm.201404792     Document Type: Article

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