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Gary Wong1, Xiangguo Qiu2, Yuhai Bi3
1CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada Department of Medical Microbiology.
Abstract:
Cases of relapsed Ebola virus disease involving symptoms in the central nervous system are reminiscent of our past observations with some nonhuman primates (NHPs) that survived acute Ebola virus infection. We document our findings in detail here and suggest that this phenomenon can be further investigated in NHPs.
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