Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the University of California, ...

Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for ...

Filoviruses present a potential bioterrorism threat because they are highly infectious, have high mortality rates and lack approved vaccines. The new VLP-based vaccine was safe and effective in ...

Filoviruses, including Marburgvirus, Ebola virus, and Cuevavirus, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses that cause deadly hemorrhagic fever in humans and ...

Filoviruses are negative-sense and single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses. The most well-known human-infecting filoviruses are marburgviruses and ebolaviruses. Infection can result in life ...

Bats are widely recognized as the primary hosts of filoviruses, such as Ebola, yet the specific host species of ebolaviruses are not definitively known. In a study led by the University of ...

Filoviruses, which originate in animals and can be transmitted to humans, pose a serious threat to human health and to primate conservation.

For years, says Dr. Peters, "we saw different filoviruses and arenaviruses arise in a specific location, and every time one came along [we] thought 'we just dodged a bullet on that.' ...

Filoviruses, first recognized in 1967, usually infect bats but can also be transmitted to humans. While filoviruses do not usually manifest symptoms in infected bats, they have the potential to ...

The biomedical community has a rather myopic focus on just three of eight filoviruses: Ebola, Sudan, and Marburg. But, as the authors of a new paper in FEMS Microbiology Reviews argue, this could ...

Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology have detailed the structure of the Ebola virus nucleocapsid using cryo-electron tomography. This discovery could guide the development of universal ...