Definition of Marburg virus
:a filovirus (species Lake Victoria marburgvirus of the genus Marburgvirus) that causes an often fatal hemorrhagic fever and was originally transmitted to humans from green monkeys
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Marburg virus
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medical Definition of Marburg virus
:an African single-stranded RNA virus of the family Filoviridae (species Marburg virus) that causes Marburg hemorrhagic fever
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