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Marburg virus outbreaks in Africa

Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2023
Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic illness, caused by a negative sense, single-stranded RNA virus which has an envelope. The Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus of the family Filoviridae.
Ibrahim Idris, Ridwan Olamilekan Adesola, Joanna Nicole D’Souza   +2 more
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Treatment of Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers: A strategy for testing new drugs and vaccines under outbreak conditions. [PDF]

, 2008
The filoviruses, Marburg and Ebola, have the dubious distinction of being associated with some of the highest case-fatality rates of any known infectious disease-approaching 90% in many outbreaks.
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Marburg and Ebola Virus Infections Elicit a Complex, Muted Inflammatory State in Bats

Viruses, 2023
The Marburg and Ebola filoviruses cause a severe, often fatal, disease in humans and nonhuman primates but have only subclinical effects in bats, including Egyptian rousettes, which are a natural reservoir of Marburg virus.
Anitha D. Jayaprakash, Adam J. Ronk, Abhishek N. Prasad, Michael F. Covington, Kathryn R. Stein, Toni M. Schwarz, Saboor Hekmaty, Karla A. Fenton, Thomas W. Geisbert, Christopher F. Basler, Alexander Bukreyev, Ravi Sachidanandam   +11 more
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa. [PDF]

, 2020
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus ...
Amara, Emmanuel, Amman, Brian R, Bairoh, Fatmata V, Bakarr, Ibrahim A, Bangura, Abdulai A, Bangura, Camilla, Bangura, Doris, Bangura, James, Belaganahalli, Manjunatha, Bird, Brian H, Chow, Andrew, Conteh, Immah, Coomber, Moinya, Dhanota, Jasjeet, Edwin, Lavalie, Foday, Ibrahim, Gbakima, Aiah A, Gibson, Alexandra, Goldstein, Tracey, Graziano, James, Guetiya Wadoum, Raoul Emeric, Jambai, Amara, Johnny, Jonathan, Kamanda, Emmanuel S, Kamara, Sorie M, Kanu, Marilyn, Kanu, Osman, Kargbo, Dickson, Koroma, Alusine H, Lebbie, Aiah, Lungai, Victor, Mazet, Jonna AK, Mereweather-Thompson, Vanessa, Musa, Jonathan, Nichol, Stuart T, Ontiveros, Victoria, Osborne, Augustus, Patel, Ketan, Robert, Willie, Saidu, Emmanuel, Schuh, Amy J, Sealy, Tara K, Singh, Tushar, Taboy, Celine H, Towner, Jonathan S, Tremeau-Bravard, Alexandre, Turay, Joseph, Turay, Mohamed, Wadsworth, Richard, Williams, Samuel Maxwell Tom   +49 more
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Marburg Virus Disease – A Mini-Review

Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences, 2022
Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a highly fatal disease caused by the Marburg virus (MARV) which belongs to the family Filoviridae. The disease has been recently reported from Ghana, an African country, and nearly 15 outbreaks of MVD have been reported in the past five decades. Various species of bats viz., Rousettus aegyptiacus, Hipposideros caffer, and
Sandip Chakraborty, Deepak Chandran, Ranjan K. Mohapatra, Mahmoud Alagawany, Mohd Iqbal Yatoo, Md. Aminul Islam, Anil K. Sharma, Kuldeep Dhama   +7 more
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Marburg Virus and Monkeypox Virus: The Concurrent Outbreaks in Ghana and the lesson learned from the Marburg Virus Containment

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2022
Ghana, a country in the African continent experienced its first ever outbreak of Marburg Virus disease on July 2022. Prior to this, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola were the two most severely affected countries to be affected by the same disease ...
Ranjit Sah, Abdullah Reda, Basant Ismail Lashin, Abdelaziz Abdelaal, Aroop Mohanty, Abdelmonem Siddiq, Bijaya Kumar Padhi   +6 more
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Lyophilisation of influenza, rabies and Marburg lentiviral pseudotype viruses for the development and distribution of a neutralisation-assay based diagnostic kit [PDF]

, 2014
Pseudotype viruses (PVs) are chimeric, replication-deficient virions that mimic wild-type virus entry mechanisms and can be safely employed in neutralisation assays, bypassing the need for high biosafety requirements and performing comparably to ...
Assar, Berge, Brauburger, Capecchi, Cliquet, Cox, Croyle, Demaison, Desvaux, Edward Wright, Fellowes, Gao, Higashikawa, Jackson, Kaku, Kishishita, Loi, Lowen, Mather, Molesti, Nigel J. Temperton, Noti, Papenburg, Pear, Scott, Scott, Shin, Simon D. Scott, Stoker, Stuart T. Mather, Temperton, Temperton, Terregino, To, Tong, Tyrrell, Wei, WHO, WHO, Wilschut, Wright, Wright, Wright, Yuen, Zufferey   +44 more
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Approaches to demonstrating the effectiveness of filovirus vaccines: Lessons from Ebola and COVID-19

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV), Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV) and Marburg virus (MARV), are members of the Filoviridae family that can cause severe disease and death in humans and animals.
Marion F. Gruber, Steven Rubin, Philip R. Krause   +2 more
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Case Series of Patients with Marburg Virus Disease, Equatorial Guinea, 2023. [PDF]

N Engl J Med
Fontana L, Ondo Avomo CO, Ngomo Mikue LE, Fuga Eyemam DÑ, Nguere MA, Mometolo IE, Bibang Nzang RN, Nguema Maye DM, Giuliani R, Jacquerioz F, Lang HJ, Kojan R, Chaillon A, Ngai S, le Polain de Waroux O, Silenzi A, Di Marco M, Negrón ME, Klena JD, Choi MJ, Mayer O, Scholte FEM, Welch SR, Zielinski-Gutierrez E, Diaz J.   +24 more
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Ebola virus VP30 and nucleoprotein interactions modulate viral RNA synthesis [PDF]

, 2017
Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped negative-sense RNA virus that causes sporadic outbreaks with high case fatality rates. Ebola viral protein 30 (eVP30) plays a critical role in EBOV transcription initiation at the nucleoprotein (eNP) gene, with ...
Amarasinghe, Gaya K, Basler, Christopher F, Batra, Jyoti, Leung, Daisy W, Luthra, Priya, Wu, Chao, Xu, Wei   +6 more
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