Ebola Survivors - Antibodies?

[Don Haut]

In article <199505132023.NAA28443 at tuna.hooked.net>, xrae at HOOKED.NET (Diana
Rae) wrote:

> Has anyone isolated antibodies to Ebola or Marburg from their survivors? 
>  
> :D

First of all, anyone exposed to a filovirus should have anti-bodies to the
virus.  Whether those anti bodies are protective to them or not I think is
unknown.  I beleive there has been some research done to that end at the
CDC and I believe they have not been able to immunize monkeys against the
virus with killed virus or viral particles.  

FYI, anytime a normal human is exposed to a protein antigen, such as a
viral capsid or viral envelope, that human should mount an anti-body
response to that antigen.

Don Haut  Wooster '88
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
University of Missouri-Columbia
C601591 at showme.missouri.edu