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Marburg disease
Marburg disease n (Pathology) a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding. Also called: green monkey disease [C20 after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded]Mar′burg disease`
n. a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.Also called green monkey disease, Mar′burg-Eb′o•la disease` (ˈɛb ə lə) [after Marburg, where laboratory workers caught the disease from infected monkeys in 1967; and Ebola, river and region in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak occurred in 1976] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Marburg disease - a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illnessgreen monkey disease, Marburg hemorrhagic feverhaemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever, VHF, viral haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever - a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage |
EncyclopediaSeeMarburg virusMarburg disease
Mar·burg dis·easeinfection 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, characterized by a prominent rash and hemorrhages in many organs, is often fatal. First seen among laboratory workers in Marburg, Germany, exposed to African green monkeys. Some interhuman spread has been observed. Attempts to isolate virus should be done only in high-security laboratories. Synonym(s): Marburg virus diseaseA rare viral haemorrhagic fever which occurs in miniclusters in Europe and Africa following direct contact with monkey tissue, blood or human serum infected with the Marburg virus.
Incubation 5-9 days; otherwise like Argentine or Bolivian hemorrhagic fever—headaches, fever, diarrhoea, myalgias, rash, pharyngitis, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, hemorrhage, renal failure
Mortality 7 of the 31 original Marburg cohort diedMar·burg dis·ease (mahr'bĕrg di-zēz') Infection caused by a virus of the order Mononegavirales and the family Filoviridae and of the genus Marburg. The virus is "pantropic" and affects most organ systems. The disease is characterized by a prominent rash and hemorrhages in many organs and is often fatal. It was first seen in Marburg, Germany in 1967, among laboratory workers exposed to African green monkeys. Some person-to-person spread has been observed. Attempts to isolate the virus should be done only in high-security laboratories.
See also: Marburg virus
Synonym(s): Marburg virus disease. Marburg disease A severe infectious disease that first occurred in laboratory workers in Marburg, West Germany, handling monkey tissue from Uganda. The disease subsequently occurred in Zaire. It is caused by the Marburg/Ebola virus and features fever, severe aching in the muscles, diarrhoea, sore throat, an extensive livid rash, enlarged lymph nodes, internal bleeding, pneumonia, ENCEPHALITIS and kidney failure. There is no specific treatment and the mortality can be as high as 90% in untreated cases. With good supportive care the mortality is about 25%.Marburg, city in Germany. Marburg disease - characterized by a prominent rash and hemorrhages in many organs; often fatal. Synonym(s): African hemorrhagic disease; green monkey disease; Marburg virusMarburg virus - Synonym(s): Marburg diseaseMarburg disease
Related to Marburg disease: viral hemorrhagic fever, African hemorrhagic feverSynonyms for Marburg diseasenoun a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virusSynonyms- green monkey disease
- Marburg hemorrhagic fever
Related Words- haemorrhagic fever
- hemorrhagic fever
- VHF
- viral haemorrhagic fever
- viral hemorrhagic fever
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