| Literature DB >> 30590775 |
Amy J Schuh1,2, Brian R Amman1, Tara K Sealy1, Markus H Kainulainen1, Ayan K Chakrabarti1, Lisa W Guerrero1, Stuart T Nichol1, Cesar G Albarino1, Jonathan S Towner1,3.
Abstract
Although bats are increasingly being recognized as natural reservoir hosts of emerging zoonotic viruses, little is known about how they control and clear virus infection in the absence of clinical disease. Here, we test >50 convalescent sera from Egyptian rousette bats (ERBs) experimentally primed or prime-boosted with Marburg virus, Ebola virus, or Sosuga virus for the presence of virus-specific neutralizing antibodies, using infectious reporter viruses. After serum neutralization testing, we conclude that antibody-mediated virus neutralization does not contribute significantly to the control and clearance of Marburg virus, Ebola virus, or Sosuga virus infection in ERBs. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018.Entities:
Keywords: Ebola virus; Marburg virus; Neutralization; Sosuga virus; bats
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30590775 PMCID: PMC6519049 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiy733
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226