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Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Synopsis

Potential Mammalian Filovirus Reservoirs

A. Townsend Peterson*Comments to Author , Darin S. Carroll†, James N. Mills†, and Karl M. Johnson‡
Author affiliations: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA*; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA†; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA‡

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Figure 1

Distributional summary of A) Ebola and B) Marburg viruses, with predicted distributions based on ecologic niche models of outbreak coordinates (13). Darker shades of red represent increasing confidence in prediction of potential presence. Disease outbreaks attributed to various filovirus species are represented as follows: open square, Ebola Ivory Coast, open circle, Ebola Zaire, open triangle, Ebola Sudan, dotted square, Marburg.

Figure 1. Distributional summary of A) Ebola and B) Marburg viruses, with predicted distributions based on ecologic niche models of outbreak coordinates (13). Darker shades of red represent increasing confidence in prediction of potential presence. Disease outbreaks attributed to various filovirus species are represented as follows: open square, Ebola Ivory Coast, open circle, Ebola Zaire, open triangle, Ebola Sudan, dotted square, Marburg.

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