id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-296635-8r3tm966 Breed, Andrew C. Evidence of Endemic Hendra Virus Infection in Flying-Foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus)—Implications for Disease Risk Management 2011-12-14 .txt text/plain 4573 199 47 title: Evidence of Endemic Hendra Virus Infection in Flying-Foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus)—Implications for Disease Risk Management This study investigated the seroepidemiology of Hendra virus in a spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) population in northern Australia, near the location of an equine and associated human Hendra virus infection in late 2004. Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) are paramyxoviruses of the genus Henipavirus with pteropid bats (i.e. flying-foxes; Pteropus sp., Family Pteropodidae) being the primary wildlife reservoir [1] . Henipaviruses have the potential to infect a wide range of mammalian species, and Hendra virus has spread from flying-foxes to horses in Australia on at least 20 reported separate occasions (five involving horse-human transmission), most recently in 2011 [5, 6, 7] . [14] on the infection dynamics of HeV in the little red flying-fox, Pteropus scapulatus, in the Northern Territory of Australia suggested that viral transmission may be predominantly horizontal, with pregnancy and lactation suggested as risk factors for infection. ./cache/cord-296635-8r3tm966.txt ./txt/cord-296635-8r3tm966.txt