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SUBMITTER: Bossart KN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3516289 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bossart Katharine N KN Rockx Barry B Feldmann Friederike F Brining Doug D Scott Dana D LaCasse Rachel R Geisbert Joan B JB Feng Yan-Ru YR Chan Yee-Peng YP Hickey Andrew C AC Broder Christopher C CC Feldmann Heinz H Geisbert Thomas W TW
Science translational medicine 20120801 146
In the 1990s, Hendra virus and Nipah virus (NiV), two closely related and previously unrecognized paramyxoviruses that cause severe disease and death in humans and a variety of animals, were discovered in Australia and Malaysia, respectively. Outbreaks of disease have occurred nearly every year since NiV was first discovered, with case fatality ranging from 10 to 100%. In the African green monkey (AGM), NiV causes a severe lethal respiratory and/or neurological disease that essentially mirrors f ...[more]