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The genus Marburgvirus is the taxonomic home of Marburg marburgvirus, whose members are the two known marburgviruses, Marburg virus and Ravn virus. Both viruses cause Marburg virus disease in and nonhuman , a form of viral hemorrhagic fever. Both are , World Health Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogens (requiring Biosafety), National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Category A Priority Pathogens, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Bioterrorism, and are listed as Biological Agents for Export Control by the Australia Group.
| + Genus Marburgvirus (family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales): species and viruses | |
| Species name | Virus name (abbreviation) |
| Marburg marburgvirus | Marburg virus |
| Ravn virus | |
Because of easy confusion with its virus member Marburg virus, the species name was changed to Lake Viktoria marburgvirus in 2005.
In 2010, it was proposed to change the name to Marburg marburgvirus, and this proposal was accepted in early 2012 by the ICTV.
Marburg marburgvirus (also referred to as Lake Victoria marburgvirus) is a virological taxon (i.e. a man-made concept) included in the genus Marburgvirus, family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales. The species has two virus members, Marburg virus and Ravn virus. The members of the species (i.e. the actual physical entities) are called Marburg marburgviruses. The name Marburg marburgvirus is derived from the city of Marburg in Hesse, West Germany (where Marburg virus was first discovered), and the taxonomic suffix marburgvirus (which denotes a marburgvirus species).
Species inclusion criteria
A virus that fulfills the criteria for being a member of the genus Marburgvirus is a member of the species Marburg marburgvirus if it has the properties of marburgviruses (because there is currently only marburgvirus species) and if its genome differs from that of Marburg virus (variant Musoke) by <30% at the nucleotide level.
Further reading
(2025). 9780954523237, Horizon Bioscience. ISBN 9780954523237
(1971). 9780387051994, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387051994
(2025). 9781574771312, Battelle Press. ISBN 9781574771312
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