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SUBMITTER: Martins KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5026048 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Expert review of vaccines 20160527 9
Filoviruses are the etiological agents of two human illnesses: Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease. Until 2013, medical countermeasure development against these afflictions was limited to only a few research institutes worldwide as both infections were considered exotic due to very low case numbers. Together with the high case-fatality rate of both diseases, evaluation of any candidate countermeasure in properly controlled clinical trials seemed impossible. However, in 2013, Ebola viru ...[more]