RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Marburg virus disease
JF Postgraduate Medical Journal
JO Postgrad Med J
FD The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
SP 542
OP 546
DO 10.1136/pgmj.49.574.542
VO 49
IS 574
A1 Martini, G. A.
YR 1973
UL http://pmj.bmj.com/content/49/574/542.abstract
AB In the late summer of 1967 an epidemic in thirty-one patients in Germany and Yugoslavia of a disease transmitted from African green monkeys occurred; seven patients died. The incubation period was from 4 to 7 days. The main clinical features were headache, high fever, diarrhoea, a very characteristic rash, severe bleeding tendency and involvement of the central nervous system. Nearly all organs were involved and showed severe cell necroses. The aetiological agent was identified as an RNS-virus and was named Marburg virus. It was detected in the blood, urine, throat-washing and seminal fluid.