Biomedical publisher Karger Publishers, Switzerland, is offering the fundamental paper 'Filoviridae: a taxonomic home for Marburg and Ebola viruses?' free to read on the homepage of its journal Intervirology as a token to assist researchers and medical professionals in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This research article was published in 1982 in Intervirology by Kiley et al.
According to the Editor-in-Chief of Intervirology, Dr. Jean-Claude Manuguerra, who leads the laboratory for urgent response to biological threats at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, this paper provides the first taxonomic description of the Ebola virus into the Filoviridae and is therefore important because basic data on the virus can be found which are generally not easily retrieved in the literature such as the virus sedimentation coefficient, the density in potassium tartrate, the total viral molecular weight, stability of infectivity to heat and gamma irradiation.
The article can be accessed at www.karger.com/INT.
