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Ebola Virus pathogenesis

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Topic Started by Sandy
on 6/20/2005 14:26 PM
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Accorning to the litterature the Ebola virus causing hemorrhagic fever in Africa is a Filoviridae; pleomorphic, 80nm diameter and 970 nm in length ( can be up to 14,000 nm in length), helical nucleocapsid, nonsegmented negative ssRNA, enveloped. The virus shape looks like a worm, I wonder if any other viral pathogenes have been discovered that belong to the Ebola family. Each virus attacks a cell via an specific receptor. has anyone discovered receptor/s for the ebola virus?


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vanishing
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Posted By vanishing on 6/29/2005 0:23 AM
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Check out this link:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010721/fob1.asp

Chan, S.Y. . . . and M.A. Goldsmith. 2001. Folate receptor-alpha as a cofactor for cellular entry by Marburg and Ebola viruses. Cell 106(July 13):117.



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Posted By shegoners on 10/7/2009 11:45 AM
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I got some things while working on Ebola Virus as my Seminar topic. If you are still interested, I can forward some links to you the next time i'm online.





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