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Filoviridae

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Noun1.Filoviridae - a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)
Ebola virus - a filovirus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon
Marburg virus - a filovirus that causes Marburg disease; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon
family - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family"
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Marburg virus (MARV) and Ebola virus, members of the family Filoviridae, cause outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic fever in Africa.
Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus by Swanepoel, Robert; Smit, Sheilagh B.; Rollin, Pierre E.; Formenty, Pierre; Leman, Patricia A.; Kemp, / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The phylogeny identified clusters corresponding to the known families within the order: Rhabdoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Filoviridae, and Bornaviridae.
Phylogeny of the mononegavirales and evolutionary divergence of the ... by Ledbetter, Kristen; Westover, Kristi M. / Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science
Marburg Identified: 1967, Germany Virus family: Filoviridae Last seen: Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa Common Animal Host: green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) Spread by: contact with infected fluids (e.
Killers Without Cures by DYER, NICOLE / Science World
 
 
 
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