Filoviruses: A Compendium of 40 Years of Epidemiological, Clinical, and Laboratory Studies

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Springer Science & Business Media, May 29, 2008 - Medical - 413 pages

The filoviruses (Lake Victoria marburgvirus and the ebolaviruses) are etiological agents of severe hemorrhagic fevers with extraordinary high case-fatality rates for humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and probably other animals.
This review summarizes in detail the contemporary knowledge of filoviruses and the diseases they cause. The entirety of the open literature on filoviruses, covering all major scientific and clinical fields, is referenced and summarized in this text, including most of the conference abstracts, book chapters, dissertations, government reports, patents, theses, and journal publications in many languages. For ease of retrieval by the reader, all references are cited with original titles in the original spelling, first author names, full journal titles, and issue numbers where possible. The text of this book and the accompanying reference resource will be updated in the future, and thus will provide a robust source of information for filovirologists, other virologists and scientists in general, clinicians, students, journalists, and biodefense professionals.

 

Contents

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
8
INTRODUCTION
20
Sudan ebolavirus
35
HISTORY OF FILOVIRAL DISEASE OUTBREAKS
59
2
75
4
90
CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF FILOVIRAL DISEASE
99
FILOVIRAL DISEASE PATHOLOGY
121
6
263
143
270
1
278
INACTIVATION OF FILOVIRUSES AND DISINFECTION PROTOCOLS
297
Adenovirus candidate vaccines
317
TREATMENT OF FILOVIRAL DISEASE
335
Members of the Filoviridae Study Group ICTV
347
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 357
356

SEROLOGICAL SURVEYS
142
SEARCH FOR RESERVOIRS
153
CULTIVATION OF FILOVIRUSES
171
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