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Natural Hendra Virus Infection in Flying-Foxes - Tissue Tropism and Risk Factors

Hendra virus (HeV) is a lethal zoonotic agent that emerged in 1994 in Australia. Pteropid bats (flying-foxes) are the natural reservoir. To date, HeV has spilled over from flying-foxes to horses on 51 known occasions, and from infected horses to close-contact humans on seven occasions. We undertook...

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Autores principales: Goldspink, Lauren K., Edson, Daniel W., Vidgen, Miranda E., Bingham, John, Field, Hume E., Smith, Craig S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26060997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128835