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Rescue and characterization of the first West African Marburg virus 2021 from Guinea

Marburg virus (MARV) is a causative agent of a severe hemorrhagic fever with high fatality rates endemic in central Africa. Current outbreaks of MARV in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania underline the relevance of MARV as a public health emergency pathogen. In 2021, the first known human MARV case was...

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Main Authors: von Creytz, Isabel, Gerresheim, Gesche K., Lier, Clemens, Schneider, Jana, Schauflinger, Martin, Benz, Marcel, Kämper, Lennart, Rohde, Cornelius, Eickmann, Markus, Biedenkopf, Nadine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2023
Subjects:
Medizin
Remdesivir
Reverse genetics
Full-length clone
Filovirus
Virus replication
Marburg virus
Medical sciences Medicine
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Summary:Marburg virus (MARV) is a causative agent of a severe hemorrhagic fever with high fatality rates endemic in central Africa. Current outbreaks of MARV in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania underline the relevance of MARV as a public health emergency pathogen. In 2021, the first known human MARV case was confirmed in Guinea, West Africa. Since no infectious virus could be isolated from that fatal case in 2021, we generated recombinant (rec) MARV Guinea by reverse genetics in order to study and characterize this new MARV, which occurred in West Africa for the first time, in terms of its growth properties, detection by antibodies, and therapeutic potential compared to known MARV strains. Our results showed a solid viral replication of recMARV Guinea in human, bat, and monkey cell lines in comparison to other known MARV strains. We further demonstrated that replication of recMARV Guinea in cells can be inhibited by the nucleoside analogue remdesivir. Taken together, we could successfully reconstitute de novo the first West African MARV from Guinea showing similar replication kinetics in cells compared to other central African MARV strains. Our reverse genetics approach has proven successful in characterizing emerging viruses, especially when virus isolates are missing and viral genome sequences are incomplete.
Item Description:Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der UB Marburg.
DOI:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19613

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