Publication Date:
2004-01-17
Description:
Several human and animal Ebola outbreaks have occurred over the past 4 years in Gabon and the Republic of Congo. The human outbreaks consisted of multiple simultaneous epidemics caused by different viral strains, and each epidemic resulted from the handling of a distinct gorilla, chimpanzee, or duiker carcass. These animal populations declined markedly during human Ebola outbreaks, apparently as a result of Ebola infection. Recovered carcasses were infected by a variety of Ebola strains, suggesting that Ebola outbreaks in great apes result from multiple virus introductions from the natural host. Surveillance of animal mortality may help to predict and prevent human Ebola outbreaks.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Leroy, Eric M -- Rouquet, Pierre -- Formenty, Pierre -- Souquiere, Sandrine -- Kilbourne, Annelisa -- Froment, Jean-Marc -- Bermejo, Magdalena -- Smit, Sheilag -- Karesh, William -- Swanepoel, Robert -- Zaki, Sherif R -- Rollin, Pierre E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jan 16;303(5656):387-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, UR034, Centre International de Recherches Medicales de Franceville, BP 769 Franceville, Gabon. Eric.Leroy@ird.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14726594" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa, Central/epidemiology
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Animals
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Animals, Wild/*virology
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Ape Diseases/*epidemiology/virology
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Base Sequence
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*Disease Outbreaks/veterinary
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Disease Reservoirs
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Ebolavirus/classification/*genetics/isolation & purification
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Gabon/epidemiology
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Genes, Viral
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Gorilla gorilla/virology
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Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/*epidemiology/transmission/*veterinary/virology
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Humans
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Pan troglodytes/virology
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Population Density
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Population Surveillance
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Ruminants/virology
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Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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