Rapid, sensitive, and specific, low-resource molecular detection of Hendra virus

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Efficient and accurate diagnosis of Hendra virus (HeV), a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) pathogen and zoonotic disease, is of primary importance for surveillance and outbreak control in the Australian equine industry. Sporadic HeV spillover events pose a serious public health concern and are predicted to expand geographically, aligning with the moving distribution of the main reservoir hosts, the flying-foxes. Here we...

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