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filovirus

Virus causing the haemorrhagic fevers Ebola virus disease and Marburg disease. Filoviruses have a filamentous structure and are about 1,500 nanometres in length. They reduce the number of platelets in the blood and so interfere with clotting. The incubation period is less than a week.



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The facility may provide some reassurance to the community (and thus serve to lessen public anxiety related to a filovirus exposure) and to laboratory researchers that there is a place for their care if they become infected.
Managing potential laboratory exposure to Ebola virus by using a ... by Kortepeter, Mark G.; Martin, James W.; Rusnak, Janice M.; Cieslak, Theodore J.; Warfield, Kelly L.; / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The history of filovirus outbreaks shows several instances from which it can be inferred that bats may have served as the source of infection.
Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus by Swanepoel, Robert; Smit, Sheilagh B.; Rollin, Pierre E.; Formenty, Pierre; Leman, Patricia A.; Kemp, / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Filovirus activity among selected ethnic groups inhabiting the tropical forest of
Pygmy populations seronegative for Marburg virus by Van der Stuyft, Patrick / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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