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Nipah Virus: A Recently Emergent Deadly
Paramyxovirus K. B. Chua, W. J.
Bellini, P. A. Rota, B. H. Harcourt, A. Tamin, S.
K. Lam, T. G. Ksiazek, P. E. Rollin, S. R. Zaki,
W.-J. Shieh, C. S. Goldsmith, D. J. Gubler, J. T.
Roehrig, B. Eaton, A. R. Gould, J. Olson, H.
Field, P. Daniels, A. E. Ling, C. J. Peters, L.
J. Anderson, and B. W. J. MahyScience
May 26 2000: 1432-1435. [Abstract][Full
Text] (need to subscribe) see Medline
for abstract.
Case-Control Study of Risk
Factors for Human Infection with a New
Zoonotic Paramyxovirus, Nipah Virus,
during a 1998-1999 Outbreak of Severe
Encephalitis in MalaysiaUmesh D. Parashar,
Lye Munn Sunn, Flora Ong,
Anthony W. Mounts,
Mohamad Taha Arif,
Thomas G. Ksiazek,
Muhammad A. Kamaluddin,
Amal N. Mustafa,
Hanjeet Kaur,
Lay Ming Ding,
Ghazali Othman,
Hayati M. Radzi,
Paul T. Kitsutani,
Patrick C. Stockton,
John Arokiasamy,
Howard E. Gary, Jr., and
Larry J. AndersonAbstractFull Text PDF
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Risk Factors for Nipah Virus
Infection among Abattoir Workers in
SingaporeMadeleine H. L. Chew,
Paul M. Arguin,
David K. Shay,
Kee-Tai Goh,
Pierre E. Rollin,
Wun-Ju Shieh,
Sherif R. Zaki,
Paul A. Rota, Ai-Ee Ling,
Thomas G. Ksiazek,
Suok-Kai Chew, and
Larry J. AndersonAbstractFull Text PDF
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Fatal encephalitis due to Nipah
virus among pig-farmers in Malaysia; Volume 354, Number 9186, 9 October 1999;
Kaw Bing Chua, Khean Jin Goh, Kum Thong
Wong, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Patrick Seow Koon Tan,
Thomas G Ksiazek, Sherif R Zaki, George Paul, Sai
Kit Lam, Chong Tin Tan
Outbreak of Nipah-virus infection
among abattoir workers in Singapore; Volume 354, Number 9186, 9 October 1999;Nicholas
I Paton, Yee Sin Leo, Sherif R Zaki, Alexander P
Auchus, Kim En Lee, Ai Ee Ling, Suok Kai Chew,
Brenda Ang, Pierre E Rollin, T Umapathi, Ivy Sng,
Cheng Chuan Lee, Erle Lim, T G Ksiazek
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Tioman virus, a novel paramyxovirus isolated from fruit
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