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Characterization of Nipah virus from naturally infected Pteropus vampyrus bats, Malaysia.

Rahman SA., Hassan SS., Olival KJ., Mohamed M., Chang L-Y., Hassan L., Saad NM., Shohaimi SA., Mamat ZC., Naim MS., Epstein JH., Suri AS., Field HE., Daszak P., Henipavirus Ecology Research Group .

We isolated and characterized Nipah virus (NiV) from Pteropus vampyrus bats, the putative reservoir for the 1998 outbreak in Malaysia, and provide evidence of viral recrudescence. This isolate is monophyletic with previous NiVs in combined analysis, and the nucleocapsid gene phylogeny species.

More information Original publication

DOI

10.3201/eid1612.091790

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2010-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

16

Pages

1990 - 1993

Total pages

3

Addresses

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Keywords

Henipavirus Ecology Research Group, Animals, Swine, Chiroptera, Humans, Nipah Virus, Communicable Diseases, Emerging, Henipavirus Infections, Prospective Studies, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Amino Acid Substitution, Sequence Analysis, Protein, Disease Outbreaks, Disease Reservoirs, Phylogeny, Molecular Sequence Data, Malaysia, Molecular Epidemiology