| authentication of the r06e fruit bat cell line. | fruit bats and insectivorous bats are believed to provide a natural reservoir for a wide variety of infectious diseases. several lines of evidence, including the successful isolation of infectious viruses, indicate that marburg virus and ravn virus have found a major reservoir in colonies of the egyptian rousette (rousettus aegyptiacus). to facilitate molecular studies on virus-reservoir host interactions and isolation of viruses from environmental samples, we established cell lines from primary ... | 2012 | 22754654 |