Studies of Reservoir Hosts for Marburg Virus

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2008 Feb 9

PMID 18258034

Citations 148

Authors

Robert Swanepoel

Sheilagh B Smit

Pierre E Rollin

Pierre Formenty

Patricia A Leman

Alan Kemp

Felicity J Burt

Antoinette A Grobbelaar

Janice Croft

Daniel G Bausch

Herve Zeller

Herwig Leirs

L E O Braack

Modeste L Libande

Sherif Zaki

Stuart T Nichol

Thomas G Ksiazek

Janusz T Paweska

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Abstract

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.

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