Hendra virus outbreak with novel clinical features, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 338-340

  Field, Hume ^a   Schaaf, Kylie ^b   Kung, Nina ^a   Simon, Craig ^b   Waltisbuhl, David ^a   Hobert, Heather ^b   Moore, Frederick ^c   Middleton, Deborah ^d   Crook, Allison ^a   Smith, Greg ^c   Daniels, Peter ^d   Glanville, Ron ^a   Lovell, David ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^b Redlands Veterinary Clinic   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN TISSUE; CONIDIOBOLUS; DEPRESSION; DISORIENTATION; DYSURIA; ENDOTOXEMIA; EPIDEMIC; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEVER; GELDING; GRANULOMA; HEAD TILTING; HENDRA VIRUS; HORSE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCUBATION TIME; KERATOPATHY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MARE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RECUMBENCY; SKIN TUMOR; STALLION; UNSTEADINESS; URINALYSIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HENDRA VIRUS; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORTALITY;

EID: 76149116512     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.090780     Document Type: Article

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