Isolation of Irkut virus from a Murina leucogaster bat in China.

• Hauptverfasser: Ye Liu (Verfasst von), Shoufeng Zhang (Verfasst von), Jinghui Zhao (Verfasst von), Fei Zhang (Verfasst von), Rongliang Hu (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Bats are recognized as a major reservoir of lyssaviruses; however, no bat lyssavirus has been isolated in Asia except for Aravan and Khujand virus in Central Asia. All Chinese lyssavirus isolates in previous reports have been of species rabies virus, mainly from dogs. Foll...