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14 Citations
8,948 Views
14 Pages

Marburg virus (MARV) is one of the deadliest human zoonotic pathogens, historically traced back to Uganda, in East African-cave-dwelling Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), the probable cradle of MARV. Since its first identification in Germa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,396 Views
25 Pages

Emerging Strategies and Progress in the Medical Management of Marburg Virus Disease

  • Sanctus Musafiri,
  • Emmanuel Edwar Siddig,
  • John Baptist Nkuranga,
  • Athanase Rukundo and ,
  • Tharcisse Mpunga,
  • Augustin Sendegeya,
  • Theogene Twagirumugabe,
  • Ayman Ahmed and
  • Claude Mambo Muvunyi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

During the current outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Rwanda, we synthesized evidence from the literature to improve case management. Accordingly, experimental treatment was offered to patients under close follow-up. Remdesivir alone or in co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,262 Views
11 Pages

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Preparedness Regarding Marburg Virus Disease Among Healthcare Workers in Awi Zone Public Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

  • Ayenew Genet Kebede,
  • Zewdu Bishaw Aynalem,
  • Aragaw Egziabherfenta Tadele,
  • Belachew Tegegne and ,
  • Asrat Yazew,
  • Betelhem Mekonnen Alem,
  • Lalem Tilahun,
  • Tamene Fetene Terefe,
  • Getachew Amare and
  • Yonas Wondie
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Background: An outbreak of Marburg virus in Jinka Town, Southern Ethiopia, has raised significant concern regarding the potential spreading of disease throughout the country. Healthcare workers play a crucial role in early prevention and control of s...

(This article belongs to the Section Infectious Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,710 Views
17 Pages

Nonhuman Primates Are Protected against Marburg Virus Disease by Vaccination with a Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Vector-Based Vaccine Prepared under Conditions to Allow Advancement to Human Clinical Trials

  • Christopher L. Cooper,
  • Gavin Morrow,
  • Maoli Yuan,
  • John W. Coleman and ,
  • Fuxiang Hou,
  • Lucia Reiserova,
  • Shui L. Li,
  • Denise Wagner,
  • Alexei Carpov and
  • Christopher L. Parks
  • + 17 authors+ 12 authors

21 September 2022

Vaccines are needed to disrupt or prevent continued outbreaks of filoviruses in humans across Western and Central Africa, including outbreaks of Marburg virus (MARV). As part of a filovirus vaccine product development plan, it is important to investi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccine Development Needs for Marburg Virus and Sudan Ebolavirus: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Zaire Ebolavirus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,293 Views
16 Pages

Thirteen-Year Sequelae of Marburg Virus Disease Survival: Persistent Cardiometabolic, Immunometabolic, and Haematological Alterations in the Absence of Psychological Morbidity

  • Jennifer Serwanga,
  • Raymond Ernest Kaweesa,
  • Joseph Katende Ssebwana,
  • Goeffrey Odoch and ,
  • Raymond Reuel Wayesu,
  • Anne Daphine Ntabadde,
  • Deborah Mukisa,
  • Peter Ejou,
  • FiloStudy Team and
  • Pontiano Kaleebu
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

Background: Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a highly lethal filoviral infection, yet its long-term health consequences remain poorly understood. We present one of the most temporally distant evaluations of MVD survivors, conducted 13 years post-outbre...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
13,274 Views
11 Pages

19 February 2014

Understanding human filovirus hemorrhagic fever (FHF) clinical manifestations and evaluating treatment strategies require the collection of clinical data in outbreak settings, where clinical documentation has been limited. Currently, no consensus amo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,394 Views
15 Pages

A Cloned Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-Vectored Marburg Vaccine, PHV01, Protects Guinea Pigs from Lethal Marburg Virus Disease

  • Wenjun Zhu,
  • Guodong Liu,
  • Wenguang Cao,
  • Shihua He and ,
  • Anders Leung,
  • Ute Ströher,
  • Michael J. Fairchild,
  • Rick Nichols,
  • Joseph Crowell and
  • Logan Banadyga
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

23 June 2022

Marburg virus (MARV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that belongs to the Filoviridae family. Despite having caused numerous outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic fever with high case fatality rates, there are still no clinically approved the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccine Development Needs for Marburg Virus and Sudan Ebolavirus: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Zaire Ebolavirus)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,995 Views
3 Pages

Marburg virus disease (MVD) remains an important global health concern, in part because of its particularly high mortality rate [...]

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,760 Views
24 Pages

Development of a Well-Characterized Cynomolgus Macaque Model of Marburg Virus Disease for Support of Vaccine and Therapy Development

  • Kendra J. Alfson,
  • Yenny Goez-Gazi,
  • Michal Gazi,
  • Ying-Liang Chou and ,
  • Nancy A. Niemuth,
  • Marc E. Mattix,
  • Hilary M. Staples,
  • Benjamin Klaffke,
  • Gloria F. Rodriguez and
  • Ricardo Carrion
  • + 13 authors+ 8 authors

14 August 2022

Marburg virus (MARV) is a filovirus that can infect humans and nonhuman primates (NHPs), causing severe disease and death. Of the filoviruses, Ebola virus (EBOV) has been the primary target for vaccine and therapeutic development. However, MARV has a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccine Development Needs for Marburg Virus and Sudan Ebolavirus: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Zaire Ebolavirus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,609 Views
34 Pages

Characterization of the Cynomolgus Macaque Model of Marburg Virus Disease and Assessment of Timing for Therapeutic Treatment Testing

  • Elizabeth E. Zumbrun,
  • Carly B. Garvey,
  • Jay B. Wells,
  • Ginger C. Lynn and ,
  • Sean Van Tongeren,
  • Jesse T. Steffens,
  • Kelly S. Wetzel,
  • Laura M. Gomba,
  • Kristan A. O’Brien and
  • John M. Dye
  • + 24 authors+ 19 authors

28 November 2023

Marburg virus (MARV) causes severe disease and high mortality in humans. The objective of this study was to characterize disease manifestations and pathogenesis in cynomolgus macaques exposed to MARV. The results of this natural history study may be...

(This article belongs to the Section Human Virology and Viral Diseases)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,589 Views
11 Pages

Evidence-Based Guidance for One Health Preparedness, Prevention, and Response Strategies to Marburg Virus Disease Outbreaks

  • Claude Mambo Muvunyi,
  • Jean Claude Semuto Ngabonziza,
  • Noella Bigirimana,
  • Nicaise Ndembi and ,
  • Emmanuel Edwar Siddig,
  • Jean Kaseya and
  • Ayman Ahmed
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2024

Objectives: Marburg virus disease (MVD) is on the WHO list for pandemic-prone pathogens. The current outbreak in Rwanda provides an opportunity to map outbreaks and generate information to inform policymaking, resource mobilization, and guide the imp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,259 Views
11 Pages

World Health Organization High Priority Pathogens: Ophthalmic Disease Findings and Vision Health Perspectives

  • Sanjana Kuthyar,
  • Casey L. Anthony,
  • Tolulope Fashina,
  • Steven Yeh and
  • Jessica G. Shantha

Recent Ebola epidemics, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and emerging infectious disease threats have highlighted the importance of global infectious diseases and responses to public health emergencies. Ophthalmologists are essential health care worker...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Human Pathogens Infections)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,130 Views
14 Pages

Virulence of Marburg Virus Angola Compared to Mt. Elgon (Musoke) in Macaques: A Pooled Survival Analysis

  • Paul W. Blair,
  • Maryam Keshtkar-Jahromi,
  • Kevin J. Psoter,
  • Ronald B. Reisler and ,
  • Travis K. Warren,
  • Sara C. Johnston,
  • Arthur J. Goff,
  • Lydia G. Downey,
  • Sina Bavari and
  • Anthony P. Cardile
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2018

Angola variant (MARV/Ang) has replaced Mt. Elgon variant Musoke isolate (MARV/MtE-Mus) as the consensus standard variant for Marburg virus research and is regarded as causing a more aggressive phenotype of disease in animal models; however, there is...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,548 Views
16 Pages

Conservation and Zoonotic Risk Implications of Egyptian Fruit Bats Amid Marburg Virus Disease Outbreaks in Tanzania and the Broader Sub-Saharan African Region

  • Edson Kinimi,
  • Lee Joo-Yeon,
  • Lee Jeong-Su,
  • Lim Hee-Young and ,
  • Min Su Yim and
  • Gerald Misinzo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The Marburg virus (MARV) is a zoonotic pathogen that causes a high case fatality rate of up to 100% in humans. In response to Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreaks in the Kagera region, an ecological investigation was initiated to map the population...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,504 Views
17 Pages

14 December 2024

In this review, we investigated the genetic diversity and evolutionary dynamics of the Orthomarburgvirus marburgense species that includes both Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVV). Using sequence data from natural reservoir hosts and human cas...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,177 Views
11 Pages

miR-142 Targets TIM-1 in Human Endothelial Cells: Potential Implications for Stroke, COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, Dengue, and Other Viral Infections

  • Urna Kansakar,
  • Jessica Gambardella,
  • Fahimeh Varzideh,
  • Roberta Avvisato and ,
  • Stanislovas S. Jankauskas,
  • Pasquale Mone,
  • Alessandro Matarese and
  • Gaetano Santulli
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

6 September 2022

T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 1 (TIM-1) has been recently identified as one of the factors involved in the internalization of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in human cells, in addition to angiotensin-convert...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pharmacology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
8,289 Views
12 Pages

Marburg Virus Persistence on Fruit as a Plausible Route of Bat to Primate Filovirus Transmission

  • Brian R. Amman,
  • Amy J. Schuh,
  • César G. Albariño and
  • Jonathan S. Towner

30 November 2021

Marburg virus (MARV), the causative agent of Marburg virus disease, emerges sporadically in sub-Saharan Africa and is often fatal in humas. The natural reservoir for this zoonotic virus is the frugivorous Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Consequence Viral Transmission)
  • Review
  • Open Access
206 Citations
61,774 Views
50 Pages

Forty-Five Years of Marburg Virus Research

  • Kristina Brauburger,
  • Adam J. Hume,
  • Elke Mühlberger and
  • Judith Olejnik

1 October 2012

In 1967, the first reported filovirus hemorrhagic fever outbreak took place in Germany and the former Yugoslavia. The causative agent that was identified during this outbreak, Marburg virus, is one of the most deadly human pathogens. This article pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Filovirus Research 2012)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,481 Views
11 Pages

Update on the Phylodynamic and Genetic Variability of Marburg Virus

  • Fabio Scarpa,
  • Liliana Bazzani,
  • Marta Giovanetti,
  • Alessandra Ciccozzi and ,
  • Francesca Benedetti,
  • Davide Zella,
  • Daria Sanna,
  • Marco Casu,
  • Alessandra Borsetti and
  • Massimo Ciccozzi
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

11 August 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only strained healthcare systems in Africa but has also intensified the impact of emerging and re-emerging diseases. Specifically in Equatorial Guinea, mirroring the situation in other African countries, unique zoonotic...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,051 Views
23 Pages

Marburg and Ebola Virus Infections Elicit a Complex, Muted Inflammatory State in Bats

  • Anitha D. Jayaprakash,
  • Adam J. Ronk,
  • Abhishek N. Prasad,
  • Michael F. Covington and ,
  • Kathryn R. Stein,
  • Toni M. Schwarz,
  • Saboor Hekmaty,
  • Karla A. Fenton,
  • Thomas W. Geisbert and
  • Ravi Sachidanandam
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

26 January 2023

The Marburg and Ebola filoviruses cause a severe, often fatal, disease in humans and nonhuman primates but have only subclinical effects in bats, including Egyptian rousettes, which are a natural reservoir of Marburg virus. A fundamental question is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viruses and Bats 2023)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,921 Views
9 Pages

Selection of Filovirus Isolates for Vaccine Development Programs

  • Daniel N. Wolfe,
  • Carol L. Sabourin,
  • Michael J. Merchlinsky,
  • William C. Florence and ,
  • Larry A. Wolfraim,
  • Kimberly L. Taylor and
  • Lucy A. Ward
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2021

The continuing outbreaks of ebola virus disease highlight the ongoing threat posed by filoviruses. Fortunately, licensed vaccines and therapeutics are now available for Zaire ebolavirus. However, effective medical countermeasures, such as vaccines fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Vaccines Against Tropical and Other Infectious Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,271 Views
9 Pages

Development of an Immunochromatography Assay to Detect Marburg Virus and Ravn Virus

  • Katendi Changula,
  • Masahiro Kajihara,
  • Shino Muramatsu,
  • Koji Hiraoka and ,
  • Toru Yamaguchi,
  • Yoko Yago,
  • Daisuke Kato,
  • Hiroko Miyamoto,
  • Akina Mori-Kajihara and
  • Ayato Takada
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

29 November 2023

The recent outbreaks of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Guinea, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, and Tanzania, none of which had reported previous outbreaks, imply increasing risks of spillover of the causative viruses, Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (R...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antibody-Based Therapeutics and Diagnostics for Viral Diseases)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,301 Views
23 Pages

Non-Ebola Filoviruses: Potential Threats to Global Health Security

  • Yannick Munyeku-Bazitama,
  • Francois Edidi-Atani and
  • Ayato Takada

23 July 2024

Filoviruses are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses often associated with severe and highly lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates, with case fatality rates as high as 90%. Of the known filoviruses, Ebola virus (EBOV), the pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,665 Views
17 Pages

Clinical, Histopathologic, and Immunohistochemical Characterization of Experimental Marburg Virus Infection in A Natural Reservoir Host, the Egyptian Rousette Bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus)

  • Megan E.B. Jones,
  • Brian R. Amman,
  • Tara K. Sealy,
  • Luke S. Uebelhoer and ,
  • Amy J. Schuh,
  • Timothy Flietstra,
  • Brian H. Bird,
  • JoAnn D. Coleman-McCray,
  • Sherif R. Zaki and
  • Jonathan S. Towner
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

2 March 2019

Egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) are natural reservoir hosts of Marburg virus (MARV), and Ravn virus (RAVV; collectively called marburgviruses) and have been linked to human cases of Marburg virus disease (MVD). We investigated the clin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis of Emerging Viral Infections)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,803 Views
18 Pages

Protection against Marburg Virus and Sudan Virus in NHP by an Adenovector-Based Trivalent Vaccine Regimen Is Correlated to Humoral Immune Response Levels

  • Machteld M. Tiemessen,
  • Laura Solforosi,
  • Liesbeth Dekking,
  • Dominika Czapska-Casey and ,
  • Jan Serroyen,
  • Nancy J. Sullivan,
  • Ariane Volkmann,
  • Maria Grazia Pau,
  • Benoit Callendret and
  • Ramon Roozendaal
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

5 August 2022

The Marburg virus (MARV) and Sudan virus (SUDV) belong to the filovirus family. The sporadic human outbreaks occur mostly in Africa and are characterized by an aggressive disease course with high mortality. The first case of Marburg virus disease in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccine Development Needs for Marburg Virus and Sudan Ebolavirus: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Zaire Ebolavirus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,545 Views
24 Pages

18 March 2024

The Marburg virus (MARV), the virus responsible for Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), is considered a top-priority pathogen for vaccine development. Recent outbreaks in Equatorial Africa have highlighted the urgency of MARV because of its high fatalit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Vaccine Development for Emerging Infectious Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,130 Views
13 Pages

Serological Evidence of Potential Marburg Virus Circulation in Livestock and Dogs in Ghana

  • Theophilus Odoom,
  • Sherry Ama Mawuko Johnson,
  • William Tasiame,
  • Meyir Y. Ziekah and ,
  • Joseph K. Abuh,
  • Benita Anderson,
  • Fenteng Danso,
  • Richard K. Abbiw,
  • Franklin Y. Nuokpem and
  • Bonto Faburay
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

22 October 2024

Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a zoonotic hemorrhagic disease with an estimated case fatality rate of up to 88%. Ghana recorded its first human MVD outbreak in June 2022 and although the outbreak was quickly brought under control, the transmission dy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnostics of Emerging and Re-Emerging Pathogens)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,991 Views
16 Pages

Natural History of Marburg Virus Infection to Support Medical Countermeasure Development

  • Jason E. Comer,
  • Trevor Brasel,
  • Shane Massey,
  • David W. Beasley and ,
  • Chris M. Cirimotich,
  • Daniel C. Sanford,
  • Ying-Liang Chou,
  • Nancy A. Niemuth,
  • Joseph Novak and
  • Daniel N. Wolfe
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

18 October 2022

The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, part of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recognizes that the evaluation of medical countermeasures under th...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Viruses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,245 Views
16 Pages

Natural History of Aerosol Exposure with Marburg Virus in Rhesus Macaques

  • Evan C. Ewers,
  • William D. Pratt,
  • Nancy A. Twenhafel,
  • Joshua Shamblin and ,
  • Ginger Donnelly,
  • Heather Esham,
  • Carly Wlazlowski,
  • Joshua C. Johnson,
  • Miriam Botto and
  • Arthur J. Goff
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

30 March 2016

Marburg virus causes severe and often lethal viral disease in humans, and there are currently no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medical countermeasures. The sporadic occurrence of Marburg outbreaks does not allow for evaluation of counte...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,706 Views
21 Pages

The Evolution of Medical Countermeasures for Ebola Virus Disease: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

  • Ian Crozier,
  • Kyla A. Britson,
  • Daniel N. Wolfe,
  • John D. Klena and ,
  • Lisa E. Hensley,
  • John S. Lee,
  • Larry A. Wolfraim,
  • Kimberly L. Taylor,
  • Elizabeth S. Higgs and
  • Karen A. Martins
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

29 July 2022

The Ebola virus disease outbreak that occurred in Western Africa from 2013–2016, and subsequent smaller but increasingly frequent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease in recent years, spurred an unprecedented effort to develop and deploy effective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccine Development Needs for Marburg Virus and Sudan Ebolavirus: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Zaire Ebolavirus)
  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,741 Views
1 Page

Development of a T7-Independent MARV Minigenome System

  • Bert Vanmechelen,
  • Joren Stroobants,
  • Kurt Vermeire and
  • Piet Maes

Marburg virus (MARV) is the only known pathogenic filovirus that does not belong to the genus Ebolavirus. It causes a severe hemorrhagic fever that is associated with a high mortality rate (>80%). The potential for filoviruses to cause devastating...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Viruses 2020—Novel Concepts in Virology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,219 Views
22 Pages

Single-Shot ChAd3-MARV Vaccine in Modified Formulation Buffer Shows 100% Protection of NHPs

  • Courtney L. Finch,
  • Thomas H. King,
  • Kendra J. Alfson,
  • Katie A. Albanese and ,
  • Julianne N. P. Smith,
  • Paul Smock,
  • Jocelyn Jakubik,
  • Yenny Goez-Gazi,
  • Michal Gazi and
  • Rong Xu
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

15 November 2022

Marburg virus (MARV) is a virus of high human consequence with a case fatality rate of 24–88%. The global health and national security risks posed by Marburg virus disease (MVD) underscore the compelling need for a prophylactic vaccine, but no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vaccine Development Needs for Marburg Virus and Sudan Ebolavirus: Leveraging Lessons Learned from the Zaire Ebolavirus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,083 Views
12 Pages

9 April 2022

During outbreaks of virus diseases, many variants may appear, some of which may be of concern. Stability in an aerosol of several Ebola virus and Marburg virus variants was investigated. Studies were performed measuring aerosol survival using the Gol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerosol Transmission of Viral Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,648 Views
13 Pages

Vaccine Platform Comparison: Protective Efficacy against Lethal Marburg Virus Challenge in the Hamster Model

  • Kyle L. O’Donnell,
  • Corey W. Henderson,
  • Hanna Anhalt,
  • Joan Fusco and ,
  • Jesse H. Erasmus,
  • Teresa Lambe and
  • Andrea Marzi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Marburg virus (MARV), a filovirus, was first identified in 1967 in Marburg, Germany, and Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. Since then, MARV has caused sporadic outbreaks of human disease with high case fatality rates in parts of Africa, with the largest o...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Immunology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,824 Views
15 Pages

Virus-Like Particle Vaccination Protects Nonhuman Primates from Lethal Aerosol Exposure with Marburgvirus (VLP Vaccination Protects Macaques against Aerosol Challenges)

  • John M. Dye,
  • Kelly L. Warfield,
  • Jay B. Wells,
  • Robert C. Unfer and ,
  • Sergey Shulenin,
  • Hong Vu,
  • Donald K. Nichols,
  • M. Javad Aman and
  • Sina Bavari
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 April 2016

Marburg virus (MARV) was the first filovirus to be identified following an outbreak of viral hemorrhagic fever disease in Marburg, Germany in 1967. Due to several factors inherent to filoviruses, they are considered a potential bioweapon that could b...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
92 Citations
15,980 Views
23 Pages

8 December 2014

Bats are reservoir hosts of several high-impact viruses that cause significant human diseases, including Nipah virus, Marburg virus and rabies virus. They also harbor many other viruses that are thought to have caused disease in humans after spillove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Viruses and Bats)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,435 Views
10 Pages

The COVID-19 Impact on the Trends in Yellow Fever and Lassa Fever Infections in Nigeria

  • Nnennaya U. Opara,
  • Ugochinyere I. Nwagbara and
  • Khumbulani W. Hlongwana

21 November 2022

Lassa fever (LF) and yellow fever (YF) belong to a group of viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs). These viruses have common features and damages the organs and blood vessels; they also impair the body’s homeostasis. Some VHFs cause mild disease, whi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecosystem Change, Infectious Diseases Transmission and Early Warning)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,160 Views
8 Pages

Evaluation of Probenecid Against Filovirus Replication in Vero E6 Cells

  • Kendra Alfson,
  • Ricardo Carrion,
  • Ralph A. Tripp,
  • Chris Cirimotich and
  • David E. Martin

26 December 2025

In human and non-human primates, filoviruses, e.g., Ebolaviruses, cause severe hemorrhagic fever for which there are few therapeutic options. While there are licensed vaccines and therapeutics for Ebola virus disease, there is no approved vaccine or...

(This article belongs to the Section Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,793 Views
12 Pages

Authentication of the R06E Fruit Bat Cell Line

  • Ingo Jordan,
  • Vincent J. Munster and
  • Volker Sandig

23 May 2012

Fruit bats and insectivorous bats are believed to provide a natural reservoir for a wide variety of infectious diseases. Several lines of evidence, including the successful isolation of infectious viruses, indicate that Marburg virus and Ravn virus h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Filovirus Research 2012)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,095 Views
9 Pages

19 August 2018

After more than 28,000 Ebola virus disease cases and at least 11,000 deaths in West Africa during the 2014–2016 epidemic, the world remains without a licensed vaccine or therapeutic broadly available and demonstrated to alleviate suffering. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research)
  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,508 Views
15 Pages

Non-human primates (NHP) share a close relationship with humans due to a genetic homology of 75–98.5%. NHP and humans have highly similar tissue structures, immunity, physiology, and metabolism and thus often can act as hosts to the same pathog...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Microbiology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,188 Views
13 Pages

Metagenomic Snapshots of Viral Components in Guinean Bats

  • Roberto J. Hermida Lorenzo,
  • Dániel Cadar,
  • Fara Raymond Koundouno,
  • Javier Juste and ,
  • Alexandra Bialonski,
  • Heike Baum,
  • Juan Luis García-Mudarra,
  • Henry Hakamaki,
  • András Bencsik and
  • Beatriz Escudero-Pérez
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

To prevent the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases and reduce their epidemic potential, we need to understand their origins in nature. Bats in the order Chiroptera are widely distributed worldwide and are natural reservoirs of prominent zoonoti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bats in Infectiology Research—Novel Tools and New Findings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,037 Views
26 Pages

10 April 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in modern healthcare by enhancing disease modeling and outbreak prediction. In this study, we develop an epidemiological model for the Marburg virus, integrating vaccination and treatment strategies w...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,190 Views
62 Pages

Marburg Virus Outbreak and a New Conspiracy Theory: Findings from a Comprehensive Analysis and Forecasting of Web Behavior

  • Nirmalya Thakur,
  • Shuqi Cui,
  • Kesha A. Patel,
  • Nazif Azizi and ,
  • Victoria Knieling,
  • Changhee Han,
  • Audrey Poon and
  • Rishika Shah
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 November 2023

During virus outbreaks in the recent past, web behavior mining, modeling, and analysis have served as means to examine, explore, interpret, assess, and forecast the worldwide perception, readiness, reactions, and response linked to these virus outbre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications in Public Health)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,000 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Ebola Virus VP40 Matrix Protein-Based Screening for Identification of Novel Candidate Medical Countermeasures

  • Ryan P. Bennett,
  • Courtney L. Finch,
  • Elena N. Postnikova,
  • Ryan A. Stewart and ,
  • Yingyun Cai,
  • Shuiqing Yu,
  • Janie Liang,
  • Julie Dyall,
  • Jason D. Salter and
  • Jens H. Kuhn
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

31 December 2020

Filoviruses, such as Ebola virus and Marburg virus, are of significant human health concern. From 2013 to 2016, Ebola virus caused 11,323 fatalities in Western Africa. Since 2018, two Ebola virus disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Co...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,296 Views
28 Pages

Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Filoviruses with Outbreak Potential in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review to Inform Vaccine Development and Deployment

  • Christopher S. Semancik,
  • Hilary S. Whitworth,
  • Matt A. Price,
  • Heejin Yun and ,
  • Thomas S. Postler,
  • Marija Zaric,
  • Andrew Kilianski,
  • Christopher L. Cooper,
  • Monica Kuteesa and
  • Suzanna C. Francis
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

11 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Orthoebolaviruses and orthomarburgviruses are filoviruses that can cause viral hemorrhagic fever and significant morbidity and mortality in humans. The evaluation and deployment of vaccines to prevent and control Ebola and Marb...

(This article belongs to the Section Vaccines Against Tropical and Other Infectious Diseases)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,728 Views
10 Pages

Preservation of scRNA-Seq Libraries Using Existing Inactivation Protocols

  • Gail L. Sturdevant,
  • Kimberly D. Meade-White,
  • Sonja M. Best and
  • Emily Speranza

13 February 2024

Single-cell RNA sequencing has soared in popularity in recent years. The ability to deeply profile the states of individual cells during the course of disease or infection has helped to expand our knowledge of coordinated responses. However, signific...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Molecular Epidemiology, Diagnostics and Management of Viral Pathogens)
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
11,498 Views
35 Pages

Monitoring Symptoms of Infectious Diseases: Perspectives for Printed Wearable Sensors

  • Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli,
  • Ahmed Albagdady,
  • Ja’far Alawadi and
  • Mahmoud Abu Abeeleh

Infectious diseases possess a serious threat to the world’s population, economies, and healthcare systems. In this review, we cover the infectious diseases that are most likely to cause a pandemic according to the WHO (World Health Organization). The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Inkjet Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
14,550 Views
31 Pages

Intracellular Events and Cell Fate in Filovirus Infection

  • Judith Olejnik,
  • Elena Ryabchikova,
  • Ronald B. Corley and
  • Elke Mühlberger

24 August 2011

Marburg and Ebola viruses cause a severe hemorrhagic disease in humans with high fatality rates. Early target cells of filoviruses are monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. The infection spreads to the liver, spleen and later other organs by b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis of Emerging and Re-Emerging RNA Viruses)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,084 Views
42 Pages

15 July 2026

Bundibugyo virus disease, caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense), is a severe human Ebola disease with substantial mortality, unresolved reservoir ecology, limited diagnostic implementation, and no licensed vaccines or therapeuti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2026 Central Africa (Bundibugyo) Ebola Virus Outbreak—and Lessons Learned from Previous Ebola Virus Episodes)

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