Studies of Reservoir Hosts for Marburg Virus

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  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.
• Corporate Authors:
  on behalf of the International Scientific ; Technical Committee for Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Description:
  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 species of insectivorous bat and 1 species of fruit bat. We found antibody to the virus in the serum of 9.7% of 1 of the insectivorous species and in 20.5% of the fruit bat species, but attempts to isolate virus were unsuccessful.
• Subjects:
  Animals Antibodies, Viral Chiroptera Marburgvirus Mining Phylogeny Research RNA, Viral
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 13(12):1847-1851.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Location:
  Africa
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:3b5f6a3c55ce61b78b9c6e52d43617eca07cca617894118a206df7174466a36e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17015/cdc_17015_DS1.pdf
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