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Identification of likely natural hosts for equine morbillivirus
P Young,Kim Halpin +1 more
TL;DR: The isolation of a paramyxovirus from three species of flying fox in Queensland suggests that flying foxes may be the natural host for the virus that causes acute equine respiratory syndrome.
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Abstract: We describe the isolation of a paramyxovirus from three species of flying fox in Queensland. The species are Pteropus alecto (black flying fox), Pteropus scapulatus (little red flying fox) and Pteropus poliocephalus (grey headed flying fox). The virus appears to be identical to the equine morbillivirus which was associated with acute equine respiratory syndrome and two human deaths in two Queensland outbreaks. The isolation of this new virus suggests that flying foxes may be the natural host for the virus that causes acute equine respiratory syndrome. Comm Dis Intell 1996;20:476.
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A Novel P/V/C Gene in a New Member of the Paramyxoviridae Family, Which Causes Lethal Infection in Humans, Horses, and Other Animals
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TL;DR: Although the virus was purified, viral proteins were identified, and the P/V/C gene was cloned and sequenced, sequence comparisons confirm that although the virus is a member of the Paramyxovirinae subfamily, it displays only low levels of homology with paramyxoviruses and morbillivirus and negligible homologies with rubulaviruses.
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Newly discovered viruses of flying foxes.
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Outbreak of Severe Respiratory Disease in Humans and Horses Due to a Previously Unrecognized Paramyxovirus
Linda A. Selvey,John Sheridan +1 more
TL;DR: This is a brief report of a new paramyxovirus infection (morbilliform group) involving humans and horses in Hendra, a residential suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, which killed 14 horses, including the index.Al1 but one had been associated with the same stable; the other died in the stable next door.
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Screening of bat carers for antibodies to equine morbillivirus
TL;DR: It is suggested that neither prolonged close contact nor casual contact with flying foxes engenders a risk of equine morbillivirus infection in humans.
Serologic evidence for the presence in Pteropus bats of a paramyxovirus related to equine morbillivirus.
TL;DR: To evaluate the theory that EMV originated from a wildlife source, a trapping program was initiated, focusing on the location of the index cases, first in Brisbane and later in Mackay when the details of that incident became known.
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