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Immunogenic and Protective Features of the Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Strain Expressing Cassette of Genes of Marburg Virus Structural Proteins

open access: yesПроблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2022
The aim of the study was to create a highly immunogenic vaccine construct based on a recombinant variant of a replication-defective MVA strain of vaccinia virus, expressing virus-like particles that mimic natural infection with Marburg virus.
A. V. Semenova   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marburg virus infection detected in a common African bat. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2007
Marburg and Ebola viruses can cause large hemorrhagic fever (HF) outbreaks with high case fatality (80-90%) in human and great apes. Identification of the natural reservoir of these viruses is one of the most important topics in this field and a ...
Jonathan S Towner   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge and attitude towards Ebola and Marburg virus diseases in Uganda using quantitative and participatory epidemiology techniques.

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
BackgroundUganda has reported five (5) Ebola virus disease outbreaks and three (3) Marburg virus disease outbreaks from 2000 to 2016. Peoples' knowledge and attitude towards Ebola and Marburg virus disease impact on control and prevention measures ...
Luke Nyakarahuka   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organisation of Health Care During an Outbreak of Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1999. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Organising health care was one of the tasks of the International Scientific and Technical Committee during the 1998-1999 outbreak in Durba/Watsa, in the north-eastern province (Province Orientale), Democratic Republic of Congo.
Borchert, M   +10 more
core   +2 more sources

Marburg virus disease [PDF]

open access: yesPostgraduate Medical Journal, 1973
Summary In the late summer of 1967 an epidemic in thirty-one patients in Germany and Yugoslavia of a disease transmitted from African green monkeys occurred; seven patients died. The incubation period was from 4 to 7 days. The main clinical features were headache, high fever, diarrhoea, a very characteristic rash, severe bleeding ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Presence and persistence of Ebola or Marburg virus in patients and survivors: A rapid systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: The 2013-15 Ebola outbreak was unprecedented due to sustainedtransmission within urban environments and thousands of survivors. In 2014 the World Health Organization stated that there was insufficient evidence to give definitive guidance ...
Brainard, Julii   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Shedding of Marburg Virus in Naturally Infected Egyptian Rousette Bats, South Africa, 2017

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
We detected Marburg virus RNA in rectal swab samples from Egyptian rousette bats in South Africa in 2017. This finding signifies that fecal contamination of natural bat habitats is a potential source of infection for humans.
Janusz T. Pawęska   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seasonal pulses of Marburg virus circulation in juvenile Rousettus aegyptiacus bats coincide with periods of increased risk of human infection. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Pathogens, 2012
Marburg virus (family Filoviridae) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Bats have been implicated as likely natural reservoir hosts based most recently on an investigation of cases among miners infected in 2007 ...
Brian R Amman   +25 more
doaj   +1 more source

A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has, as of 29 April 2015, resulted in more than 10,884 deaths among 26,277 cases. Prior to the ongoing outbreak, Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused relatively small outbreaks (maximum outbreak ...
Bento, AI   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Risk Factors for Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
We conducted two antibody surveys to assess risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever in an area of confirmed Marburg virus transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Daniel G. Bausch   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

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