MARBURG VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marburg virus mean? 

• MARBURG VIRUS (noun)
  The noun MARBURG VIRUS has 1 sense:

1. a filovirus that causes Marburg disease; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon

  Familiarity information: MARBURG VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARBURG VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A filovirus that causes Marburg disease; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Marburg virus" is a kind of...):

filovirus (animal viruses belonging to the family Filoviridae)

Holonyms ("Marburg virus" is a member of...):

Filoviridae (a family of threadlike RNA viruses that cause diseases in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees))

 Context examples 

In addition, neither antibody conferred protection against the related Lloviu or Marburg viruses when tested in human cells in the laboratory setting.

(Antibodies from Ebola survivor protect mice and ferrets against related viruses, NIH)

The proteins are from Ebola virus (Kikwit strain), Sudan virus (Boniface strain, which also causes Ebola virus disease), Marburg virus (Angola strain) and Lassa virus (Josiah strain).

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

The scientists state that the addition of the Lassa virus component to their multivalent vaccine is an exciting research advance as they already had developed an investigational trivalent vaccine that provided protection against Ebola, Sudan and Marburg viruses.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)