Ecology of filoviruses

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 411, Issue , 2017, Pages 23-61

  Amman, Brian R ^a   Swanepoel, Robert ^b   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Towner, Jonathan S ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BAT; DISEASE CARRIER; EBOLAVIRUS; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FILOVIRUS; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MARBURGVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK MANAGEMENT; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; FILOVIRIDAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGY; FILOVIRIDAE; FILOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 85039421125     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: 21969965     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/82_2017_10     Document Type: Chapter

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