Article
Marburg and Ebola virus infections elicit a complex, muted inflammatory state in bats
2020-04-15
Abstract excerpt
The Marburg and Ebola filoviruses cause a severe, often fatal, disease in humans and nonhuman primates but have only subclinical effects in bats, including Egyptian rousettes, which are a natural reservoir of Marburg virus. A fundamental question is why these viruses are highly pathogenic in humans but fail to cause disease in bats. To understand how bats resist the disease caused by filoviruses, we infected one c...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ea70c914-5b85-56cb-a5e4-73909e1d7c81
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.04.13.039503
