The dynamic landscape of bat borne zoonotic viruses in Australia
Kim Halpin A and David N Durrheim B
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A Australian Animal Health Laboratory
5 Portarlington Road
East Geelong, Vic. 3219, Australia
Email: kim.halpin@csiro.au
B University of Newcastle
School of Medicine and Public
Health, Callaghan Campus
Newcastle, NSW 2287, Australia
Microbiology Australia 41(1) 6-9 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA20003
Published: 28 February 2020
Abstract
This review discusses the history, epidemiology, diagnostics, clinical presentation in humans, as well as control and prevention measures, of the high-profile viruses Hendra virus (HeV) and Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV). Since the discovery of HeV and ABLV in the 1990s, these viruses have only caused disease in areas where spill-over hosts, including humans, encounter the reservoir host.
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