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Nipah Virus Infection in Dogs, Malaysia, 1999
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 15, Iss 6, Pp 950-952 (2009), Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009.
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Abstract
- The 1999 outbreak of Nipah virus encephalitis in humans and pigs in Peninsular Malaysia ended with the evacuation of humans and culling of pigs in the epidemic area. Serologic screening showed that, in the absence of infected pigs, dogs were not a secondary reservoir for Nipah virus.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Veterinary medicine
Epidemiology
Swine
Nipah virus
viruses
encephalitis
lcsh:Medicine
Culling
Biology
Antibodies, Viral
Nipah Virus Infection
Serology
Disease Outbreaks
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
Dogs
Nipah virus encephalitis
parasitic diseases
medicine
Prevalence
Animals
Humans
lcsh:RC109-216
Dog Diseases
Henipavirus Infections
Swine Diseases
lcsh:R
Dispatch
Malaysia
Outbreak
virus diseases
pigs
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
medicine.disease
Virology
zoonoses
Infectious Diseases
Encephalitis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10806059 and 10806040
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....736c7ee9cc25dbc6261dde562af7ef80