Marburg disease is a severe infectious disease caused by marburgviruses within the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae of -ssRNA viruses. Related viruses in Filoviridae are the causative agent of Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Marburgvirus was discovered in 1967 in Germany.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain zoonotic viral diseases
1D60 Filovirus disease
H00405 Marburg disease
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H00405 Marburg disease
