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Cell Reports, 2023 Summary: Ebola virus (EBOV) and Bundibugyo virus (BDBV) belong to the family Filoviridae and cause a severe disease in humans. We previously isolated a large panel of monoclonal antibodies from B cells of human survivors from the 2007 Uganda BDBV ...
Rodrigo I. Santos +8 more
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Potential Vaccines and Post-Exposure Treatments for Filovirus Infections
Viruses, 2012 Viruses of the family Filoviridae represent significant health risks as emerging infectious diseases as well as potentially engineered biothreats. While many research efforts have been published offering possibilities toward the mitigation of filoviral ...
Gene G. Olinger +6 more
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Ebola virus: A global public health menace: A narrative review
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019 Ebola virus disease (EVD), a fatal viral hemorrhagic illness, is due to infection with the Ebola virus of the Filoviridae family. The disease has evolved as a global public health menace due to a large immigrant population.
Shamimul Hasan +3 more
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015 Ebola hemorrhagic fever, caused by the highly virulent RNA virus of the filoviridae family, has become one of the world's most feared pathogens. The virus induces acute fever and death, often associated with hemorrhagic symptoms in up to 90% of infected ...
Gerald Amandu Matua +2 more
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Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2018 Marburg fever is an acute natural-focal disease characterized by severe course, hemorrhagic syndrome, high level of contagiousness and lethality. The causative agent of the disease is the RNA-containing virus belonging to the family of filoviruses ...
N. V. Volkova +2 more
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Genetically Diverse Filoviruses in Rousettus and Eonycteris spp. Bats, China, 2009 and 2015
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 Genetically divergent filoviruses detected in Rousettus and Eonycteris spp. bats in China exhibited 61%–99% nt identity with reported filoviruses, based on partial replicase sequences, and they demonstrated lung tropism.
Xing-Lou Yang +13 more
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CryoEM structure of the Nipah virus nucleocapsid assembly.
PLoS Pathogens, 2021 Nipah and its close relative Hendra are highly pathogenic zoonotic viruses, storing their ssRNA genome in a helical nucleocapsid assembly formed by the N protein, a major viral immunogen.
De-Sheng Ker +3 more
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Ebolavirus and Haemorrhagic Syndrome
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, 2015 The Ebola virus is a highly virulent, single-stranded ribonucleic acid virus which affects both humans and apes and has fast become one of the world’s most feared pathogens. The virus induces acute fever and death, with haemorrhagic syndrome occurring in
Gerald A. Matua +2 more
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Ebola virus disease: past, present and future
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015 Ebola virus disease is one of the most deadly ailments known to mankind due to its high mortality rate (up to 90%) accompanying with the disease. Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an infectious disease of animal that can be transmitted to both human and ...
Harish Rajak +4 more
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PAirwise Sequence Comparison (PASC) and Its Application in the Classification of Filoviruses
Viruses, 2012 PAirwise Sequence Comparison (PASC) is a tool that uses genome sequence similarity to help with virus classification. The PASC tool at NCBI uses two methods: local alignment based on BLAST and global alignment based on Needleman-Wunsch algorithm.
Tatiana Tatusova +2 more
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