| defined epitope blocking with murray valley encephalitis virus and monoclonal antibodies: laboratory and field studies. | in an attempt to develop a specific serological test for murray valley encephalitis (mve) virus antibodies, a panel of mve monoclonal antibodies was utilised in defined-epitope blocking elisa tests. in sera of mice immunised singly and in combinations of mve, alfuy (alf), and kunjin (kun) viruses, blocking patterns usually distinguished mve infections from those of the other flaviviruses. when blocking tests with selected mabs were applied to 468 flavivirus antibody positive sera collected from ... | 1990 | 1700805 |
| murray valley encephalitis virus field strains from australia and papua new guinea: studies on the sequence of the major envelope protein gene and virulence for mice. | we have compared the nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding the major envelope (e) protein of a number of murray valley encephalitis virus (mve) isolates from australia and papua new guinea (png). the isolates, from widely separated geographic regions, were from four fatal human cases, a heron, and six mosquito pools and covered a period of 25 years. the sequences of the australian strains were notable for their similarity, showing not more than 1.7% nucleotide sequence divergence in pairwise ... | 1988 | 2838962 |
| australian encephalitis in the northern territory: clinical and epidemiological features, 1987-1996. | the last epidemic of australian encephalitis occurred in 1974. since then, cases have been reported from the kimberley of western australia (wa). | 1998 | 9847946 |
| australia's notifiable diseases status, 2001: annual report of the national notifiable diseases surveillance system. | in 2001 there were 104,187 notifications of communicable diseases in australia reported to the national notifiable diseases surveillance system (nndss). the number of notifications in 2001 was an increase of 16 per cent of those reported in 2000 (89,740) and the largest annual total since the nndss commenced in 1991. in 2001, nine new diseases were added to the list of diseases reported to nndss and four diseases were removed. the new diseases were cryptosporidiosis, laboratory-confirmed influen ... | 2003 | 12725505 |
| the viruses of australia and the risk to tourists. | australia is a climatically diverse country varying from a tropical climate in the north to arid central desert and grassland regions, and to temperate climates in the south. there are many viral infections found in australia that are common to developed countries worldwide, but this article will focus on those that pose a special risk for travellers to australia, especially the mosquito-borne viruses. the commonest are the members of the alphavirus genus, particularly ross river virus and barma ... | 2011 | 21679887 |