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.
Fraser
G C
GC
NSW Department of Agriculture, Wollongbar, Australia.
Hooper
P T
PT
Lunt
R A
RA
Gould
A R
AR
Gleeson
L J
LJ
Hyatt
A D
AD
Russell
G M
GM
Kattenbelt
J A
JA
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
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral