Marburg virus nucleic acid was found in 12 bats, antibodies were found in 2 species of these bats, but no live virus was isolated

Alan Kemp

Antoinette A. Grobbelaar

Bausch

Calisher

Conrad

Daniel G. Bausch

Felicity J. Burt

Formenty

Hervé Zeller

Herwig Leirs

Hyatt

Janice Croft

Janusz T. Paweska

Johnson

Kumar

L.E.O. Braack

Leroy

Miranda

Modeste L. Libande

Patricia A. Leman

Pierre E. Rollin

Pierre Formenty

Robert Swanepoel

Sheilagh B. Smit

Sherif Zaki

Smith

Stuart T. Nichol

Swanepoel

Thomas G. Ksiazek

Towner

Venter

Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Studies of Reservoir Hosts for Marburg Virus

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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Swanepoel, Robert

Smit, Sheilagh B.

Rollin, Pierre E.

Formenty, Pierre

Leman, Patricia A.

Kemp, Alan

Burt, felicity J.

Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.

Croft, Janice

Bausch, Daniel G.

Zeller, Herv\ue9

Leirs, Herwig

Braack, L.E.O.

Libande, Modeste L.

Zaki, Sherif

Nichol, Stuart T.

Ksiazek, Thomas G.

Paweska, Janusz T.

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