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Marburg, n. Med.|ˈmɑːbɜːg|
[The name of the city in central Germany where the first major outbreak occurred.]
Used attrib. to designate the virus of an acute, often fatal, haemorrhagic febrile disease orig. transmitted to man from the green monkey.
1968Lancet 29 June 1434/1 (heading) Human disease from monkeys (Marburg virus). 1969Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene LXIII. 324 The isolates were made from human beings with the Marburg disease and not from monkeys. 1975Nature 15 May 185/1 The first task of the laboratory will be to build up a bank of diagnostic sera against the rare haemorrhagic fevers such as Bolivian and Congo haemorrhagic fevers, and other exotic tropical virus diseases, such as Marburg disease. 1976Scotsman 20 Nov. 4/5 He became infected when a syringe containing the Marburg-type virus penetrated his protective glove. 1983Oxf. Textbk. Med. I. v. 127 Marburg infection was confirmed serologically. |