Serological Evidence of Ebola Virus Infection in Indonesian Orangutans

Chairul A. Nidom; Eri Nakayama; Reviany V. Nidom; Mohamad Y. Alamudi; Syafril Daulay; Indi N. L. P. Dharmayanti; Yoes P. Dachlan; Mohamad Amin; Manabu Igarashi; Hiroko Miyamoto; Reiko Yoshida; Ayato Takada

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040740

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Serological Evidence of Ebola Virus Infection in Indonesian Orangutans

Chairul A. Nidom ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chairul A. Nidom, Eri Nakayama

* E-mail: nidomca@unair.ac.id (CAN); atakada@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (AT)

Affiliations Avian Influenza-zoonosis Research Center, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
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Eri Nakayama ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Chairul A. Nidom, Eri Nakayama

Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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Reviany V. Nidom,

Affiliations Avian Influenza-zoonosis Research Center, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
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Mohamad Y. Alamudi,

Affiliations Avian Influenza-zoonosis Research Center, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
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Syafril Daulay,

Affiliation Center for Diagnostic Standard of Agriculture Quarantine, Ministry of Agriculture, Jakarta, Indonesia
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Indi N. L. P. Dharmayanti,

Affiliation Indonesian Research Center for Veterinary Science, Ministry of Agriculture, Bogor, Indonesia
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Yoes P. Dachlan,

Affiliation Tropical Disease Hospital, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
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Mohamad Amin,

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Disease, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
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Manabu Igarashi,

Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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Hiroko Miyamoto,

Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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Reiko Yoshida,

Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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Ayato Takada

* E-mail: nidomca@unair.ac.id (CAN); atakada@czc.hokudai.ac.jp (AT)

Affiliation Division of Global Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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Serological Evidence of Ebola Virus Infection in Indonesian Orangutans

Chairul A. Nidom,
Eri Nakayama,
Reviany V. Nidom,
Mohamad Y. Alamudi,
Syafril Daulay,
Indi N. L. P. Dharmayanti,
Yoes P. Dachlan,
Mohamad Amin,
Manabu Igarashi,
Hiroko Miyamoto

Published: July 18, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040740

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353 is a serious number.

Posted by orangutanborneo on 05 Nov 2012 at 07:17 GMT

Would you provide further information please?
1. Where do you captured the wild orang-utans? Can you described the locations etc?
2. Where do you quarantine them?
3. How many people do you employed to monitor the 353 orangutans for around 6 months each?

Thank you.

No competing interests declared.

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353 is a serious number.

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