Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus

2005/11/30 by Eric M. Leroy, Brice Kumulungui, Xavier Pourrut +10 · 1,300 citations
Medicine · #Biology #Disease reservoir #Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever #Ebola virus #Ebolavirus #Natural reservoir #Outbreak #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research #Viral Infections and Vectors #Virology #Virology and Viral Diseases #Virus #Zoology

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/438575a

published in Nature 438(7068), 575-576 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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