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Definition of Marburg disease
1. Noun. A viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness.
Generic synonyms: Haemorrhagic Fever, Hemorrhagic Fever, Vhf, Viral Haemorrhagic Fever, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Definition of Marburg disease
1. Noun. (disease) A viral infection characterised by a high fever, encephalitis, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe bleeding from bodily orifices, and which is often fatal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Marburg disease
1. Infection with an unusual rhabdovirus composed of RNA and lipid, tentatively assigned to the family of Filoviridae. Virus is "pantropic" and affects most organ systems.The disease is characterised by a prominent rash and haemorrhages in many organs and is often fatal. First seen among laboratory workers in Marburg, Germany, exposed to African green monkeys. Some person-to-person spread has been observed. Attempts to isolate virus should be done only in high-security laboratories. Synonym: Marburg virus disease. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marburg Disease
Literary usage of Marburg disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biosafety in the Laboratory: Prudent Practices for the Handling and Disposal by National Research Council (U. S.) (1989)
"and Marburg disease (Cercopithecus spp.), and arthropods are the natural vectors
of the tick-borne encephalitis complex agents. ..."
2. Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories edited by Jonathan Y. Richmond, Robert W. McKinney (1994)
"and Marburg disease (Cercopithecus spp.); more recently, filoviruses related to
Ebola were associated with Macaca spp. Arthropods are the natural vectors of ..."
3. National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism edited by Joseph E. McDade (1999)
"... fever and Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, from the Bunyaviridae family; and
Ebola hemorrhagic fever and Marburg disease, from the Filoviridae family. ..."
4. High-Impact Terrorism: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop by National Research Council, Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences, Carnegie Corporation of New York (2002)
"... of such infections as monkeypox, Marburg disease, Ebola, prion encephalopathies,
foot-and-mouth disease, African and classical swine fever, and others. ..."
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