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Robert Swanepoel
Researcher at University of Pretoria
Publications - 98
Citations - 9610
Robert Swanepoel is an academic researcher from University of Pretoria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Ebola virus. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 96 publications receiving 8749 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Swanepoel include Public Health Agency of Canada & Harvard University.
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Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus
Eric M. Leroy,Brice Kumulungui,Xavier Pourrut,Pierre Rouquet,Alexandre Hassanin,Philippe Yaba,André Délicat,Janusz T. Paweska,Jean-Paul Gonzalez,Robert Swanepoel +9 more
TL;DR: Evidence of asymptomatic infection by Ebola virus is found in three species of fruit bat, indicating that these animals may be acting as a reservoir for this deadly virus.
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Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife
Eric M. Leroy,Pierre Rouquet,Pierre Formenty,Sandrine Souquière,Annelisa Kilbourne,Jean-Marc Froment,Magdalena Bermejo,Sheilag Smit,William B. Karesh,Robert Swanepoel,Sherif R. Zaki,Pierre E. Rollin +11 more
TL;DR: Recovered carcasses were infected by a variety of Ebola strains, suggesting that Ebola outbreaks in great apes result from multiple virus introductions from the natural host.
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Isolation of Genetically Diverse Marburg Viruses from Egyptian Fruit Bats
Jonathan S. Towner,Brian R. Amman,Tara K. Sealy,Serena A. Carroll,James A. Comer,Alan Kemp,Robert Swanepoel,Christopher D. Paddock,Stephen Balinandi,Marina L. Khristova,Pierre Formenty,César G. Albariño,David M. Miller,Zachary Reed,John Kayiwa,James N. Mills,Deborah Cannon,Patricia W. Greer,Emmanuel Byaruhanga,Eileen C. Farnon,Patrick Atimnedi,Samuel Okware,Edward Katongole-Mbidde,Robert Downing,Jordan W. Tappero,Sherif R. Zaki,Thomas G. Ksiazek,Stuart T. Nichol,Pierre E. Rollin +28 more
TL;DR: Data indicate common Egyptian fruit bats can represent a major natural reservoir and source of Marburg virus with potential for spillover into humans.
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The Reemergence of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995
Ali S. Khan,F. Kweteminga Tshioko,David L Heymann,Bernard Le Guenno,Pierre Nabeth,Barbara Kerstiëns,Y Fleerackers,Peter H. Kilmarx,Guenael Rodier,Okumi Berthe Nkuku,Pierre E. Rollin,Anthony Sanchez,Sherif R. Zaki,Robert Swanepoel,Oyewale Tomori,Stuart T. Nichol,C. J. Peters,J. J. Muyembe-Tamfum,Thomas G. Ksiazek +18 more
TL;DR: In May 1995, an international team characterized and contained an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and terminated by the initiation of barrier-nursing techniques, health education efforts, and rapid identification of cases.
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Experimental inoculation of plants and animals with Ebola virus
Robert Swanepoel,Patricia A. Leman,Felicity J. Burt,Nicholas A. Zachariades,Lawrence E.O. Braack,Thomas G. Ksiazek,Pierre E. Rollin,Sherif R. Zaki,C. J. Peters +8 more
TL;DR: Thirty-three varieties of 24 species of plants and 19 species of vertebrates and invertebrates were experimentally inoculated with Ebola Zaire virus and died; deaths occurred only among bats that had not adapted to the diet fed in the laboratory.