Potential Exposures to Australian Bat Lyssavirus Notified in Queensland, Australia, 2009-2014.

• Main Authors: Damin Si (Author), John Marquess (Author), Ellen Donnan (Author), Bruce Harrower (Author), Bradley McCall (Author), Sonya Bennett (Author), Stephen Lambert (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) belongs to the genus Lyssavirus which also includes classic rabies virus and the European lyssaviruses. To date, the only three known human ABLV cases, all fatal, have been reported from Queensland, Australia. ABLV is widely distributed in Australian bats,...