Ebola virus is a member of family Filoviridae, which can cause severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals. Of the four identified strains of Ebola virus, three-the Zaire, Ivory Coast, and Sudan strains-have been shown to cause disease in both humans and nonhuman primates, with the Zaire strain exhibiting the highest lethality rate.
Creative Diagnostics has just released a series of recombinant Ebola antigens including nuclear proteins, glycoproteins and VP40 expressed in E. coli for antibody production and immunoassay purpose.
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