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• Virome Profiling of Bats from Myanmar by Metagenomic Analysis of Tissue Samples Reveals More Novel Mammalian Viruses.

  Authors:Biao He, Zuosheng Li, Fanli Yang, Junfeng Zheng, Ye Feng, Huancheng Guo, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 22, 20138,908 words Article 1570LBats are reservoir animals harboring many important pathogenic viruses and with the capability of transmitting these to humans and other animals. To establish an effective surveillance to monitor transboundary spread of...

• Guinea Marburg outbreak ends.

  From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 99, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 2021137 words Brief article 1250LOn 16 September 2021, the Ministry of Health of Guinea declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak in Gueckedou prefecture, Nzerekore Region. The declaration was made 42 days after the burial of the only...

• Ebolavirus Nucleoprotein C-Termini Potently Attract Single Domain Antibodies Enabling Monoclonal Affinity Reagent Sandwich Assay (MARSA) Formulation

  Authors:Laura J. Sherwood and Andrew HayhurstFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 5, 201312,966 words Article 1800LAuthor(s): Laura J. Sherwood, Andrew Hayhurst * Introduction Viruses are usually experts in energetic economy, employing multiple copies of a relatively small repertoire of key architectural templates to assemble...

• The Ebola questions: scientists know a lot about the virus that causes Ebola--but there are many puzzles that they have yet to solve

  Author:Erika Check HaydenFrom:Nature (Vol. 514, Issue 7524) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 30, 20143,619 words Article 1350LTo much of the world, the virus behind the devastating Ebola outbreak in Africa seems to have stormed out of nowhere. But Leslie Lobel thinks we should have seen it coming. In 2012, Lobel and a team of researchers...

• Marburg virus in fruit bat, Kenya

  Authors:Ivan V. Kuzmin, Michael Niezgoda, Richard Franka, Bernard Agwanda, Wanda Markotter, Robert F. Breiman, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20101,217 words Letter to the editor 1280LTo the Editor: Lake Victoria Marburgvirus (MARV) causes severe hemorrhagic fever with a high case-fatality rate in humans. Index cases occurred in Europe during 1967 among laboratory workers who handled tissues and...

• Marburgvirus in Egyptian Fruit Bats, Zambia.

  Authors:Masahiro Kajihara, Bernard M. Hangombe, Katendi Changula, Hayato Harima, Mao Isono, Kosuke Okuya, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 25, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20192,067 words Article 1540LWe detected Marburg virus genome in Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) captured in Zambia in September 2018. The virus was closely related phylogenetically to the viruses that previously caused Marburg outbreaks...

• The Organisation of Ebola Virus Reveals a Capacity for Extensive, Modular Polyploidy

  Authors:Daniel R. Beniac, Pasquale L. Melito, Shauna L. deVarennes, Shannon L. Hiebert, Melissa J. Rabb, Lindsey L. Lamboo, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 11, 20129,459 words Article 1410LAuthor(s): Daniel R. Beniac 1 , Pasquale L. Melito 1 , Shauna L. deVarennes 1 , Shannon L. Hiebert 1 , Melissa J. Rabb 1 , 2 , Lindsey L. Lamboo 1 , 3 , Steven M. Jones 1 , Timothy F. Booth 1 , 2 , * Introduction...

• Role of Wildlife in Emergence of Ebola Virus in Kaigbono (Likati), Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017.

  From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 26, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20202,712 words Article 1380LAfter the 2017 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in Likati, a district in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, we sampled small mammals from the location where the primary case-patient presumably acquired the infection....

• Measuring the Strength of Interaction between the Ebola Fusion Peptide and Lipid Rafts: Implications for Membrane Fusion and Virus Infection

  Authors:Monica S. Freitas, Cristian Follmer, Lilian T. Costa, Cecilia Vilani, M. Lucia Bianconi, Carlos Alberto Achete, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 13, 20116,605 words Article 1430LThe Ebola fusion peptide (EBO.sub.16) is a hydrophobic domain that belongs to the GP2 membrane fusion protein of the Ebola virus. It adopts a helical structure in the presence of mimetic membranes that is stabilized by...

• Serologic Prevalence of Ebola Virus in Equatorial Africa

  Authors:Imke Steffen, Kai Lu, Lauren K. Yamamoto, Nicole A. Hoff, Prime Mulembakani, Emile O. Wemakoy, et al.From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 25, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20194,618 words Article 1510LWe conducted a serologic survey of 2,430 serum samples collected during 1997-2012 for various studies to determine the prevalence of the hemorrhagic fever virus Ebola virus (EBOV) in equatorial Africa. We screened serum...

• Do therapeutic antibodies hold the key to an effective treatment for Ebola hemorrhagic fever?

  Author:Ayato TakadaFrom:Immunotherapy (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20131,977 words Editorial 1520LAuthor(s): Ayato Takada 1 KEYWORDS : antibody therapy; Ebola virus; envelope glycoprotein; filovirus; Marburg virus; nonhuman primates; passive immunization; virus neutralization Filoviruses, including Ebola...

• Advanced antisense therapies for postexposure protection against lethal filovirus infections

  Authors:Travis K. Warren, Kelly L. Warfield, Jay Wells, Dana L. Swenson, Kelly S. Donner, Sean A. Van Tongeren, et al.From:Nature Medicine (Vol. 16, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 20102,374 words Report 1680LCurrently, no vaccines or therapeutics are licensed to counter Ebola or Marburg viruses, highly pathogenic filoviruses that are causative agents of viral hemorrhagic fever. Here we show that administration of positively...

• The German Primate Center - planning and realization of the institute

  Author:M. SchwibbeFrom:Primate Biology (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  June 10, 2015222 words Brief article It took almost 20 years from the first proposal for the foundation of a German primate centre to the final establishment of an institute for research on primates. Since 1964, the German science community had considered...

• Advances in the development of vaccines against Marburg and Ebola viruses

  Authors:Peter L Collins and Alexander BukreyevFrom:Future Virology (Vol. 2, Issue 6)

  Nov. 20072,871 words Editorial Author(s): Peter L Collins 1 , Alexander Bukreyev [[dagger]] 2 Marburg (MARV) and Ebola (EBOV) viruses are enveloped viruses (family Filoviridae ) with a single negative-sense strand of genomic RNA of more than 19...

• Fighting infection: challenges and recent advances in microbiology

  Author:Ulrich DesselbergerFrom:Future Virology (Vol. 1, Issue 2)

  Mar. 20062,131 words Article Author(s): Ulrich Desselberger After a long interval, this meeting took up an almost forgotten tradition of joint Scandinavia-UK meetings, and gathered approximately 150 participants, two-thirds of them from Norway,...

• Contrasting academic and lay press print coverage of the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak

  Authors:Mark D. Kieh, Elim M. Cho, and Ian A. MylesFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 22, 201712,494 words Article 1530LUnder a traditional paradigm, only those with the expected background knowledge consume academic literature. The lay press, as well as government and non-government agencies, play a complementary role of extracting...

• Monovalent virus-like particle vaccine protects guinea pigs and nonhuman primates against infection with multiple Marburg viruses

  Authors:Dana L Swenson, Kelly L Warfield, Tom Larsen, D Anthony Alves, Sadie S Coberley, and Sina BavariFrom:Expert Review of Vaccines (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20087,226 words Article Author(s): Dana L Swenson 1 , Kelly L Warfield 2 , Tom Larsen 3 , D Anthony Alves 4 , Sadie S Coberley 5 , Sina Bavari [[dagger]] 6 Keywords: antibody; Ebola; filovirus; Marburg; nonhuman primate; protective...

• Antibody therapy as a future treatment option for Ebola virus infection

  Authors:Keita Matsuno and Ayato TakadaFrom:Future Virology (Vol. 2, Issue 6)

  Nov. 20074,916 words Article Author(s): Keita Matsuno 1 , Ayato Takada [[dagger]] 2 Keywords: antibody therapy; Ebola virus; monoclonal antibody; passive immunization Ebola virus (EBOV) is a nonsegmented, negative-strand RNA virus, and...

• Mucosal Immunization of Cynomolgus Macaques with the VSV[DELTA]G/ZEBOVGP Vaccine Stimulates Strong Ebola GP-Specific Immune Responses

  Authors:Xiangguo Qiu, Lisa Fernando, Judie B. Alimonti, P. Leno Melito, Friedericke Feldmann, Daryl Dick, et al.From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 4, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 14, 20097,870 words Article 1400LBackground Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) produces a lethal viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and non-human primates. Methodology/Principal Findings We demonstrate that the VSV[DELTA]G/ZEBOVGP vaccine given 28 days...

• Could interferon help treat Ebola?

  Author:Miriam ShuchmanFrom:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 186, Issue 16) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 4, 2014566 words Article 1490LIn early August, amid rising alarm about Ebola, immunologist Eleanor Fish of the University Health Network in Toronto contacted a friend in Sierra Leone to say that the antiviral drug interferon might be helpful. There...