Marburg Virus
By: Brandon Wiesinger
Family and Genus of the Marburg Virus
Family: Filoviridae
Why: Uses virion to infect its host, negative strand of linear genome, infects through zoonosis and body fluids.
Diseases Caused:
Causes patient to have large amount of bleeding inside and outside of the body, patient usually dies within 8 to 9 days after these symptoms onset due to large amounts of blood loss and shock.
Proteins, Nucleic acids:
Nucleoprotein: encapsidate the virus genome for the purposes of RNA transcription, replication and packaging.
VP24: function has not been found out yet.
Matrix VP24: function has not been found out yet.
Polymerase: caps mRNAs and polyadenylates them during synthesis.
Transcription factor VP30: transcription antitermination factor right after transcription has initiated.
Polymerase cofactor VP35: inhibits interferons production and cofactor of viral RNA polymerase.
Groups of organisms and body systems infected:
Affects the body's vascular system, affects how blood moves through the body, causes internal and external bleeding and also organ failure.
Diagrams of infection in the cell and transmission host to host
Symptoms of Virus:
- High fever
- Severe headache
- Sever malaise
- Watery diarrhea
- Cramping
- Vomiting
- Nausea
- Hemorrhagic fever
- Bleeding internal and external
- Sustained high fever
Cure and Prevention:
Prevention
Make sure pigs on pig farms in Africa aren't infected by the fruit bat. Certain fruit bats are carriers of the disease. Raise awareness on how the virus is spread and what causes infection. Also, teach communities how to deal with treating dead bodies and patients with the disease.
Bibliography
"Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever." World Health Organization. Nov. 2012. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.
"Ugandan Health Worker Dies Of Marburg Virus, Ebola Relative." Forbes. Forbes Magazine. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.(Used for the picture)
Basler, Christopher F. "Filovirus Pathogenesis and Immune Evasion: Insights from Ebola Virus and Marburg Virus." Nature.com. Nature Publishing Group, 6 Oct. 2015. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.(Used for the picture)
"Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease Epidemics: Preparedness, Alert, Control, and Evaluation." Www.who.int/en/. WHO. Web. 21 Mar. 2016.(used for diagram)