## Abstract For more than 30 years the filoviruses, Marburg virus and Ebola virus, have been associated with periodic outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever that produce severe and often fatal disease. The filoviruses are endemic primarily in resourceβpoor regions in Central Africa and are also potential a
Characteristics of Filoviridae: Marburg and Ebola Viruses
β Scribed by Brigitte Beer; Reinhard Kurth; Alexander Bukreyev
- Book ID
- 105805117
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 358 KB
- Volume
- 86
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-1042
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