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

• Hoofdauteurs: Ye Liu (Auteur), Shoufeng Zhang (Auteur), Jinghui Zhao (Auteur), Fei Zhang (Auteur), Rongliang Hu (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: 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...