Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2010)

Genome Sequence Conservation of Hendra Virus Isolates during Spillover to Horses, Australia

  • Glenn A. Marsh,
  • Shawn Todd,
  • Adam Foord,
  • Eric Hansson,
  • Kelly R. Davies,
  • Lynda Wright,
  • Chris Morrissy,
  • Kim Halpin,
  • Deborah Middleton,
  • Hume E. Field,
  • Peter Daniels,
  • Lin-Fa Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1611.100501
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 11
pp. 1767 – 1769

Abstract

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Bat-to-horse transmission of Hendra virus has occurred at least 14 times. Although clinical signs in horses have differed, genome sequencing has demonstrated little variation among the isolates. Our sequencing of 5 isolates from recent Hendra virus outbreaks in horses found no correlation between sequences and time or geographic location of outbreaks.

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