Experimental Inoculation of Plants and Animals with Ebola Virus

1996/12/01 by Robert Swanepoel, Patricia A. Leman, Felicity J. Burt +6 · 363 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research #Zoonotic diseases and public health #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Biology #Ebola virus #Inoculation #Virology #Virus #Insectivore #Titer #Ebolavirus #Zoology #Ecology #Immunology #Predation

paper · doi:10.3201/eid0204.960407

published in Emerging infectious diseases 2(4), 321-325 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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Abstract

Thirty-three varieties of 24 species of plants and 19 species of vertebrates and invertebrates were experimentally inoculated with Ebola Zaire virus. Fruit and insectivorous bats supported replication and circulation of high titers of virus without necessarily becoming ill; deaths occurred only among bats that had not adapted to the diet fed in the laboratory.

Citations

• Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Kikwit, Zaire

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