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

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...

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Main Authors: Ye Liu, Shoufeng Zhang, Jinghui Zhao, Fei Zhang, Rongliang Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3591329?pdf=render