title: Encephalitis caused by a Lyssavirus in fruit bats in Australia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: NSW Department of Agriculture, Wollongbar, Australia.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.forename: P T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Hooper
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Lunt
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Gleeson
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Hyatt
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kattenbelt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002685:Chiroptera; D018792:Encephalitis, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D018114:Lyssavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D051379:Mice; D019251:Nucleocapsid / Q000276:immunology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D018353:Rhabdoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000821:virology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral