Australian bat lyssavirus

Australian bat lyssavirus
	Colored transmission electron micrograph of Australian bat lyssavirus. The bullet-like objects are the virions, and some of them are budding off from a cell.
Virus classification
(unranked):	Virus
Realm:	Riboviria
Kingdom:	Orthornavirae
Phylum:	Negarnaviricota
Class:	Monjiviricetes
Order:	Mononegavirales
Family:	Rhabdoviridae
Genus:	Lyssavirus
Species:	Australian bat lyssavirus

Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV), originally named Pteropid lyssavirus (PLV), is a enzootic virus closely related to the rabies virus. It was first identified in a 5-month-old juvenile black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) collected near Ballina in northern New South Wales, Australia, in January 1995 during a national surveillance program for the recently identified Hendra virus.^[1] ABLV is the seventh member of the genus Lyssavirus (which includes Rabies virus) and the only Lyssavirus member present in Australia. ABLV has been categorized to the Phylogroup I of the Lyssaviruses.^[2]

^ * Speare R, Skerratt L, Foster R, Berger L, Hooper P, Lunt R, et al. (May 1997). "Australian bat lyssavirus infection in three fruit bats from north Queensland" (PDF). Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 21 (9): 117–120. PMID 9145563. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
^ Weir DL, Coggins SA, Vu BK, Coertse J, Yan L, Smith IL, et al. (March 2021). "Isolation and Characterization of Cross-Reactive Human Monoclonal Antibodies That Potently Neutralize Australian Bat Lyssavirus Variants and Other Phylogroup 1 Lyssaviruses". Viruses. 13 (3): 391. doi:10.3390/v13030391. PMC 8001737. PMID 33804519.

[1] * Speare R, Skerratt L, Foster R, Berger L, Hooper P, Lunt R, et al. (May 1997). "Australian bat lyssavirus infection in three fruit bats from north Queensland" (PDF). Communicable Diseases Intelligence. 21 (9): 117–120. PMID 9145563. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.

[Weir-2021a-2] Weir DL, Coggins SA, Vu BK, Coertse J, Yan L, Smith IL, et al. (March 2021). "Isolation and Characterization of Cross-Reactive Human Monoclonal Antibodies That Potently Neutralize Australian Bat Lyssavirus Variants and Other Phylogroup 1 Lyssaviruses". Viruses. 13 (3): 391. doi:10.3390/v13030391. PMC 8001737. PMID 33804519.

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