Isolation and molecular identification of Nipah virus from pigs

• Main Authors: Li, Yen Chang, Bakar, Sazaly Abu, S.H., Sharifah, Ali, A.R. Mohd, Yusoff, Khatijah, Zamrod, Zulkeflie
• Other Authors: Ahmad, Abdul Latif
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2004
• Subjects: Q179.9-180 Research
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/42118/1/pBIO03_%281%29.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/42118/

An outbreak of febrile encephalitis with high death rates (~56%) occurred among pig farmers in a pig-farming community in Tambun, Perak, Malaysia, in 1998 (Wong et al., 2002). The disease spread southward within four to six months to several other pigfarming communities near or around Seremban, a c...