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LC and DKN contributed equally to this work.
The authors thank T Westfeld, E-M May, D Wiegel and W Wuebbolt (Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG, Leverkusen, Germany) for analytical services. We are deeply indebted to BE Korba (Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA) for conducting the HBV DNA hybridization assay, to GG Olinger and C Scully (US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD, USA) for performing the eGFP-EBOV experiments, and to CKH Tseng (National Institutes of Health [NIH], National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [NIAID], Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [DMID], Virology Branch) for supervising the wild-type EBOV experiments. We cordially thank R Koshy (NIH, NIAID, DMID, Enteric and Hepatic Diseases Branch) for helpful discussions.
The authors declare no competing interests.
This work was supported in part by NIH CFAR grant 2P30-AI-50409 (to RFS) and by the Department of Veterans Affairs (to RFS). This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal Funds from the DMID, NIAID, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, under contract HHSN272201100012I. The Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute is supported by a capital infrastructure investment from Cycle 5 of the Irish Higher Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI). DKN would like to thank the Irish Research Council and Dell Ireland for funding. LC expressed her thanks to the Health Research Board (HRB/2007/2) for funding. We are obliged to K Hecker (HEKAtech GmbH, Wegberg, Germany) for expert elemental analyses.
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