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Emerging zoonotic encephalitis viruses: lessons from Southeast Asia and Oceania.
J Neurovirol. 2005 Oct; 11(5):434-40.JN

Abstract

The last decade of the 20th Century saw the introduction of an unprecedented number of encephalitic viruses emerge or spread in the Southeast Asian and Western Pacific regions (Mackenzie et al, 2001; Solomon, 2003a). Most of these viruses are zoonotic, either being arthropod-borne viruses or bat-borne viruses. Thus Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, has spread through the Indonesian archipelago to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and to the islands of the Torres Strait of northern Australia, to Pakistan, and to new areas in the Indian subcontinent; a strain of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) was described for the first time in Hokkaido, Japan; and a novel mosquito-borne alphavirus, Me Tri virus, was described from Vietnam. Three novel bat-borne viruses emerged in Australia and Malaysia; two, Hendra and Nipah viruses, represent the first examples of a new genus in the family Paramyxoviridae, the genus Henipaviruses, and the third, Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) is new lyssavirus closely related to classical rabies virus. These viruses will form the body of this brief review.

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Mackenzie JS
Australian Biosecurity CRC, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Mackenzie@curtin.edu.au

MeSH

AlphavirusAnimalsArthropodsAsia, SoutheasternChiropteraCommunicable Diseases, EmergingEncephalitis Virus, JapaneseEncephalitis Viruses, Tick-BorneEncephalitis, ViralHenipavirusHumansLyssavirusNipah VirusPacific IslandsRNA VirusesZoonoses

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Journal Article
Review

Language

eng

PubMed ID

16287684

Citation

Mackenzie, John S.. "Emerging Zoonotic Encephalitis Viruses: Lessons From Southeast Asia and Oceania." Journal of Neurovirology, vol. 11, no. 5, 2005, pp. 434-40.
Mackenzie JS. Emerging zoonotic encephalitis viruses: lessons from Southeast Asia and Oceania. J Neurovirol. 2005;11(5):434-40.
Mackenzie, J. S. (2005). Emerging zoonotic encephalitis viruses: lessons from Southeast Asia and Oceania. Journal of Neurovirology, 11(5), 434-40.
Mackenzie JS. Emerging Zoonotic Encephalitis Viruses: Lessons From Southeast Asia and Oceania. J Neurovirol. 2005;11(5):434-40. PubMed PMID: 16287684.
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