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Ecology of Ebola Virus: A First Clue?

1981; Oxford University Press; Volume: 143; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/infdis/143.5.749

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Karl M. Johnson, Curtis L. Scribner, Joseph B. McCormick,

Hepatitis B Virus Studies

The identity, if any, of the natural reservoirs and biological vectors of the related Marburg and Ebola viruses, which have caused several dramatic nosocomial outbreaks of acute hemorrhagic fever in Africa, has been an unsolved riddle with few clues to the answer for the past 13 years. The failure to find evidence of infection with Marburg virus in wild monkeys captured in Uganda [1], where the fateful group of Cercopithicus aethiops delivered this virus to the first known human vic-