Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus

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; Hervé Zeller; Herwig Leirs; L. E.O. Braack; Modeste L. Libande; Sherif Zaki; Stuart T. Nichol; Thomas G. Ksiazek; Janusz T. Paweska

doi:10.3201/eid1312.071115

Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus

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
, Hervé 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1847-1851
Number of pages	5
Journal	Emerging infectious diseases
Volume	13
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1312.071115
State	Published - Dec 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases

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Swanepoel, R., Smit, S. B., Rollin, P. E., Formenty, P., Leman, P. A., Kemp, A., Burt, F. J., Grobbelaar, A. A., Croft, J., Bausch, D. G., Zeller, H., Leirs, H., Braack, L. E. O., Libande, M. L., Zaki, S., Nichol, S. T., Ksiazek, T. G., & Paweska, J. T. (2007). Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus. Emerging infectious diseases, 13(12), 1847-1851. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1312.071115

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