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JANUARY 27, 2009
  Penn Study Identifies How Ebola Virus Avoids the Immune System 
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Scanning electron microscope image of Ebola virions (spaghetti-like filaments) on the surface of a tetherin-expressing cell (center). The other three cells seen in this image (upper right and upper and lower left) do not have the filamentous virus on their surfaces.

Credit: Paul Bates, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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Scanning electron microscope image of Ebola virions (spaghetti-like filaments) on the surface of a tetherin-expressing cell (center). The other three cells seen in this image (upper right and upper and lower left) do not have the filamentous virus on their surfaces.
 


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