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Jamaican fruit bats’ ( <i>Artibeus jamaicensis</i> ) competence for Ebola virus but not Marburg virus is driven by intrinsic differences in viral entry and IFN-I signaling antagonism
2024-10-19
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Summary</h4> Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) are zoonotic filoviruses that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. Bat species in both Chiropteran suborders host filoviruses, suggesting that bats may have coevolved with this viral family. Correlative data implicate bats as natural EBOV hosts, but neither a full-length genome nor an EBOV isolate has been found in any bats sampled. Here, we modelled filo...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3302647a-0436-5a67-94f3-22dbcc834d2c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.10.17.618736
