The Disinfection Characteristics of Ebola Virus Outbreak Variants

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cook, Bradley W M ^a,b   Cutts, Todd A ^a   Nikiforuk, Aidan M ^a,b   Leung, Anders ^a   Kobasa, Darwyn ^a,b   Theriault, Steven S ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; VIRUS RNA;

AFRICA; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISINFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; VIRION; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; EBOLAVIRUS; ETHANOL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RNA, VIRAL; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; VIRION;

EID: 85002757201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep38293     Document Type: Article

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