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Studies of reservoir hosts for Marburg virus

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) 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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DOI
10.3201/eid1312.071115

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Class
Mammalia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chiroptera
Phylum
Chordata