Volume 2, Number 4—October 1996
Dispatch
Experimental Inoculation of Plants and Animals with Ebola Virus
Table 2
Results of experimental infection of various animals with Ebola virus
| Day postinfection |
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| Species | Common name | Pool size | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 21 | 28 |
| Columba livia | Domestic pigeon | 1 | 0/1* | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| Hyperolius viridiflavus | Painted reed frog | 2 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/2 | |
| Bufo regularis | Common toad | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||||
| Chiromantis xerampelina | Grey tree frog | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||||
| Hemidactylus mabouia | Tropical house gecko | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||
| Lamprophis fuliginosus | Brown house snake | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/2 | 0/2 |
| Geochelone pardalis | Leopard tortoise | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||||
| Kinixys belliana | Hinged-back tortoise | 1 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | 0/2 | ||||||||||||
| Tadarida condylura | Angola free-tailed bat | 1 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Tadarida pumila | Little free-tailed bat | 1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1/2 | 0/2 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/4 | 0/5 | ||
| Epomophorus wahlbergi | Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat | 1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | ||||||
| Mastomys natalensis ss | Multimammate mouse | 1 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | 0/3 | |
| Mus musculus | NIH mouse | 1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/2 | ||||||
| Periplaneta americana | American cockroach | 2 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||
| Austria agallia | Leafhopper | 50 | 0/1 | |||||||||||||||
| Messor barbarus capensis | Myrmicine ant | 5 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||||
| Stegodyphus dumicola | Social spider | 2 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/1 | |||||||
| Alloporus sp. | Millipede | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||
| Achatina sp. | African landsnail | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||||
*Virus isolations/pools tested
