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1: Emerg Infect Dis. 1996 Oct-Dec;2(4):327-31.Click here to read Links

Encephalitis caused by a Lyssavirus in fruit bats in Australia.

NSW Department of Agriculture, Wollongbar, Australia.

This report describes the first pathologic and immunohistochemical recognition in Australia of a rabies-like disease in a native mammal, a fruit bat, the black flying fox (Pteropus alecto). A virus with close serologic and genetic relationships to members of the Lyssavirus genus of the family Rhabdoviridae was isolated in mice from the tissue homogenates of a sick juvenile animal.

PMID: 8969249 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2639915