Seasonal pulses of marburg virus circulation in juvenile Rousettus aegyptiacus bats coincide with periods of increased risk of human infection. BMC Infect Dis. Outbreaks of MARV are sporadic, deadly, and often characterized by a lack of resources and facilities to diagnose and treat patients. Pourrut X, Souris M, Towner JS, Rollin PE, Nichol ST, Gonzalez JP, Leroy E. Large serological survey showing cocirculation of Ebola and Marburg viruses in Gabonese bat populations, and a high seroprevalence of both viruses in Rousettus aegyptiacus. Further study is needed to determine if other species may also host the virus. Fruit bats infected with Marburg virus do not to show obvious signs of illness.
Primates (including humans) can become infected with Marburg virus, and may develop serious disease with high mortality. Marburg virus, a member of the filovirus family—which also contains the five species of Ebola virus—typically causes a serious disease of hemorrhagic fever, with a fatality ratio of up to 88%. PLoS Pathogens. A Cercopithecus aethiops majmokkal dolgozó embereket megfertőzve vérzéses lázat okozott.
La Biblioteca Virtual en Salud es una colección de fuentes de información científica y técnica en salud organizada y almacenada en formato electrónico en la Región de América Latina y el Caribe, accesible de forma universal en Internet de modo compatible con las bases internacionales. 2012; 8:e11785 doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002877. 2009; 9:159. A 31 fertőzött emberből heten meghaltak. Marburg virus (MARV) is a highly pathogenic virus associated with severe disease and mortality rates as high as 90%. A Marburg marburg-vírus a Filoviridae család Marburgvirus nemzetségébe tartozik, amelyet 1967-ben fedeztek fel, amikor kísérleti célokra importált közép-afrikai majmokkal behurcolták Németországba, Marburg városába. The reservoir host of Marburg virus is the African fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus. [PMC free article]
Marburg virus (Marburg marburgvirus; MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) in Africa.The Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) has been identified as a natural reservoir based most-recently on the repeated isolation of MARV directly from bats caught at two locations in southwestern Uganda where miners and tourists separately contracted MHF from 2007–08.