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A FATAL CASE OF MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS
Author(s) -
Cook Ian,
Allan Beverley C.,
Horsfall W. R.,
Flanagan J. E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1970.tb84449.x
Subject(s) - encephalitis , isolation (microbiology) , virus , virology , virus isolation , northern territory , geography , archaeology , history , biology , bioinformatics
Murray Valley encephalitis virus was Isolated from the brain of a Toowoomba nurse who had recently returned from north‐west Australia. This is the sixth recorded isolation from human brain, and the first since 1957. It indicates the continued presence of the virus In northern Australia.