Studies of Reservoir Hosts for Marburg Virus

To determine reservoir hosts for Marburg virus (MARV), we examined the fauna of a mine in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The mine was associated with a protracted outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever during 1998-2000. We found MARV nucleic acid in 12 bats, comprising 3.0%-3.6% of 2...

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Published in:	Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 13; no. 12; pp. 1847 - 1851
Main Authors:	Swanepoel, Robert, Smit, Sheilagh B., Rollin, Pierre E., Formenty, Pierre, Leman, Patricia A., Kemp, Alan, Burt, Felicity J., Grobbelaar, Antoinette A., Croft, Janice, Bausch, Daniel G., Zeller, Hervé, Leirs, Herwig, Braack, L.E.O., Libande, Modeste L., Zaki, Sherif, Nichol, Stuart T., Ksiazek, Thomas G., Paweska, Janusz T.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.12.2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:	Animals Antibodies, Viral - analysis Antibodies, Viral - immunology Bats Chiroptera - classification Chiroptera - immunology Chiroptera - virology Democratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Genetic aspects Marburg virus Marburg virus disease Marburgvirus - genetics Marburgvirus - immunology Marburgvirus - isolation & purification Mining Nucleic acids Phylogeny reservoir hosts RNA, Viral - genetics RNA, Viral - isolation & purification Democratic Republic of the Congo United States
ISSN:	1080-6040, 1080-6059
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