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. 1990 Mar 3;335(8688):502-5.
doi: 10.1016/0140-6736(90)90737-p.

Preliminary report: isolation of Ebola virus from monkeys imported to USA

P B Jahrling  1 , T W Geisbert, D W Dalgard, E D Johnson, T G Ksiazek, W C Hall, C J Peters
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Preliminary report: isolation of Ebola virus from monkeys imported to USA

P B Jahrling et al. Lancet. .

Abstract

An epizootic caused by an Ebola-related filovirus and by simian haemorrhagic fever virus began among cynomolgus monkeys in a US quarantine facility after introduction of monkeys from the Philippines. This incident, the first in which a filovirus has been isolated from non-human primates without deliberate infection, raises the possibility that cynomolgus monkeys could be a reservoir of Ebola virus infection.

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