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Marburg virus
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Mar·burg virus  (märbûrg)
n.
A filovirus causing an acute, often fatal hemorrhagic disease that was originally transmitted to humans from green monkeys.
[After Marburg, where its appearance in humans was first identified.]
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Noun1.Marburg virus - a filovirus that causes Marburg diseaseMarburg virus - a filovirus that causes Marburg disease; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon
Filoviridae - a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees)
filovirus - animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae
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Marburgvirus genomics and association with a large hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola.
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
GreeneLAMP analysis detected human enterovirus A, human respiratory syncytial A virus, influenza A virus, Lake Victoria marburgvirus (MARV), SARS-CoV, lactobacillus, mycobacteria, and gammaproteobacteria (Table 3).
Panmicrobial oligonucleotide array for diagnosis of infectious ... by Lipkin, W. Ian / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The genus Marburgvirus contains one species, Lake Victoria marburgvirus, with several recognized strains, and Ebolavirus contains four species: Ivory Coast ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, and Zaire ebolavirus, For simplicity, we refer to the viruses using the unitalicized vernacular (e.
Ecologic and geographic distribution of filovirus disease by Mills, James N. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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