01.025. Filoviridae

01.025.0.02.001. Ebola virus

Micrograph courtesy of Dr. Frederick A. Murphy

School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California Davis
Davis, USA.

"Ebola virus, diagnostic specimen from the first passage in Vero cells of a specimen from a human patient—this image is from the first isolation and visualization of Ebola virus, 1976. This image has been "borrowed" so often for various public uses that many people think that all Ebola virions look just like this—indeed, in the film Outbreak every virion seen looked just like this. In fact, Ebola virions are extremely varied in appearance — they are flexible filaments with a consistent diameter of 80 nm (nanometers), but they vary greatly in length (although their genome length is constant) and degree of twisting. Negatively stained virions."

Original source of micrograph.

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Virus Species	Virus Genus	Virus Family	Host
Zaire Ebola virus	"Ebola-like viruses"	Filoviridae	Homo sapiens