Experimental inoculation of egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) with viruses of the ebolavirus and marburgvirus genera

Viruses

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3420-3442

  Jones, Megan E B ^a,b,c   Schuh, Amy J ^a   Amman, Brian R ^a   Sealy, Tara K ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^a   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Towner, Jonathan S ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebolavirus; Egyptian rousette bat; Experimental infection study; Marburgvirus; Reservoir host; Rousettus aegyptiacus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BAT; BIOSAFETY; BLOOD SAMPLING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLAVIRUS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; MARBURGVIRUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS; SEROLOGY; VIRUS CULTURE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE MODEL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; LIVER; MARBURG HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPLEEN; VIROLOGY;

EBOLA VIRUS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIVER; MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE; MARBURGVIRUS; SPLEEN;

EID: 84936940562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v7072779     Document Type: Article

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