Encephalitis Caused by a Lyssavirus in Fruit Bats in Australia
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Encephalitis caused by a Lyssavirus in fruit bats in 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.
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid0204.960408