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SUBMITTER: Cross RW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249574 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cross Robert W RW Mire Chad E CE Agans Krystle N KN Borisevich Viktoriya V Fenton Karla A KA Geisbert Thomas W TW
The Journal of infectious diseases 20181101 suppl_5
The domestic ferret was recently described as a uniformly lethal model for 3 species of Ebolavirus. More importantly, this new model utilizes nonadapted wild-type Ebolaviruses. Here, in a proof-of-concept study, we infected ferrets with different variants of the closely related Marburg and Ravn viruses using different doses and routes of exposure. Although ferrets produced a neutralizing humoral response to challenge, we did not observe disease or viremia in any animal. The lack of disease in fe ...[more]