The changing epidemiology of Murray Valley encephalitis in Australia: the 2011 outbreak and a review of the literature.

• Main Authors: Linda A Selvey (Author), Lynne Dailey (Author), Michael Lindsay (Author), Paul Armstrong (Author), Sean Tobin (Author), Ann P Koehler (Author), Peter G Markey (Author), David W Smith (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV) is the most serious of the endemic arboviruses in Australia. It was responsible for six known large outbreaks of encephalitis in south-eastern Australia in the 1900s, with the last comprising 58 cases in 1974. Since then MVEV clinical cases have been largely c...