Article
A New Hendra Virus Genotype Found in Australian Flying Foxes
2021-06-18
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Hendra virus (HeV) has caused lethal disease outbreaks in humans and horses in Australia. Pteropid bats (flying foxes) are the wildlife reservoir from which the virus was first isolated in 1996. Following a heat stress mortality event in Australian flying foxes in 2013, a novel HeV variant was discovered. This study describes the subsequent surveillance of Australian flying...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5448eaf1-15ce-54ec-a3fc-3f845c20c199
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-616496/v1
