Ebola virus ecology

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 190, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1893-1894

  McCormick, Joseph B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VIRUS; EDITORIAL; FILOVIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; EBOLAVIRUS; ECOLOGY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 9444229399     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425429     Document Type: Editorial

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