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Large serological survey showing cocirculation of Ebola and Marburg viruses in Gabonese bat populations, and a high seroprevalence of both viruses in Rousettus aegyptiacus

BACKGROUND: Ebola and Marburg viruses cause highly lethal hemorrhagic fevers in humans. Recently, bats of multiple species have been identified as possible natural hosts of Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) in Gabon and Republic of Congo, and also of marburgvirus (MARV) in Gabon and Democratic Republic of Co...

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Autores principales: Pourrut, Xavier, Souris, Marc, Towner, Jonathan S, Rollin, Pierre E, Nichol, Stuart T, Gonzalez, Jean-Paul, Leroy, Eric
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2761397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19785757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-159