Establishment of fruit bat cells (Rousettus aegyptiacus) as a model system for the investigation of filoviral infection.

• Main Authors: Verena Krähling (Author), Olga Dolnik (Author), Larissa Kolesnikova (Author), Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit (Author), Ingo Jordan (Author), Volker Sandig (Author), Stephan Günther (Author), Stephan Becker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: The fruit bat species Rousettus aegyptiacus was identified as a potential reservoir for the highly pathogenic filovirus Marburg virus. To establish a basis for a molecular understanding of the biology of filoviruses in the reservoir host, we have adapted a set of molecular tools for inve...