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Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) is a member of the order Mononegavirales, family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssairus. The viruses of this family have non-segmented single-strand negative sense RNA genomes and encode. The virion is long as it's name suggests (rhabdos is Greek for "rod"), and usually bullet-shaped comprising a nucleocapsid covered with a lipid envelope. It contains an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RDRP). Other mebers of the genus European bat lyssavirus 1, European bat lyssavirus 2, Mokola virus an rabies virus include
Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV) was first identified in June 1996 by Gould et al. ABLV is found in sevreal species of flying foxes and bats in Australia and caused the death of two humans, one in 1996 (a bat handler) and the other in 1998 (bitten by a sick bat two years earlier), both in Queensland. |
