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.


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

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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

Maranon's syndrome
Marans
Maranta arundinaceae
Marantaceae
Marasmius
Marasmius oreades
Marat
Maratha
Marathas
Marathi
Marathons
Marattia
Marattia salicina
Marattiaceae
Marattiales
Marburg disease
Marburg hemorrhagic fever
Marburg virus
Marc
Marc Blitzstein
Marc Chagall
Marcacci's muscle
Marcapomacocha
Marceau
Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Lajos Breuer
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Proust
Marcella

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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