Assessing the Evidence Supporting Fruit Bats as the Primary Reservoirs for Ebola Viruses

Ecohealth. 2016 Mar;13(1):18-25. doi: 10.1007/s10393-015-1053-0. Epub 2015 Aug 13.

Authors

Siv Aina J Leendertz¹, Jan F Gogarten^{2

3

4}, Ariane Düx², Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer², Fabian H Leendertz²

Affiliations

¹ Research Group Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany. leendertzs@rki.de.
² Research Group Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany.
³ Primatology Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
⁴ Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Africa
Animals
Chiroptera / virology*
Disease Outbreaks / veterinary
Disease Reservoirs / veterinary*
Disease Reservoirs / virology*
Ebolavirus / isolation & purification
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / transmission*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / veterinary*
Humans
Marburg Virus Disease / transmission
Marburgvirus / isolation & purification
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Public Health*
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Zoonoses / transmission*
Zoonoses / virology*