1. Nipah Virus in the Fruit Bat Pteropus vampyrus in Sumatera, Indonesia.
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Sendow, Indrawati, Ratnawati, Atik, Taylor, Trevor, Adjid, R. M. Abdul, Saepulloh, Muharam, Barr, Jennifer, Wong, Frank, Daniels, Peter, and Field, Hume
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NIPAH virus ,LIVESTOCK diseases ,MARIANA flying fox ,REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction ,SALIVA analysis ,URINALYSIS ,VETERINARY medicine - Abstract
Nipah virus causes periodic livestock and human disease with high case fatality rate, and consequent major economic, social and psychological impacts. Fruit bats of the genus Pteropus are the natural reservoir. In this study, we used real time PCR to screen the saliva and urine of P. vampyrus from North Sumatera for Nipah virus genome. A conventional reverse transcriptase (RT-PCR) assay was used on provisionally positive samples to corroborate findings. This is the first report of Nipah virus detection in P. vampyrus in Sumatera, Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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