 Nipah Virus
"Nipah Virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of HENIPAVIRUS, closely related to HENDRA VIRUS, which emerged in Peninsular Malaysia in 1998. It causes a severe febrile VIRAL ENCEPHALITIS in humans and also encephalitis and RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS in pigs. Fruit bats (PTEROPUS) are the natural host.
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D045405
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.455.600.650.400.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Nipah Virus- Nipah Virus
- Nipah Viruses
- Virus, Nipah
- Viruses, Nipah
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Nipah Virus" by people in Profiles.
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Worwa G, Yú S, Hischak AMW, Tran JP, Bearss JJ, Bernbaum J, Woodburn DB, Pahar B, Geiger J, Huzella LM, Freire SV, Crozier I, Muñoz-Fontela C, Palacios G, Kleinstreuer NC, Widerspick L, Kuhn JH. Human organoids for Risk Group 4 virus research: a new frontier in investigating Nipah virus infection of the central nervous system. J Virol. 2025 11 25; 99(11):e0107025.
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Liu J, Coffin KM, Johnston SC, Babka AM, Bell TM, Long SY, Honko AN, Kuhn JH, Zeng X. Nipah virus persists in the brains of nonhuman primate survivors. JCI Insight. 2019 07 25; 4(14).
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Radoshitzky SR, Dong L, Chi X, Clester JC, Retterer C, Spurgers K, Kuhn JH, Sandwick S, Ruthel G, Kota K, Boltz D, Warren T, Kranzusch PJ, Whelan SP, Bavari S. Infectious Lassa virus, but not filoviruses, is restricted by BST-2/tetherin. J Virol. 2010 Oct; 84(20):10569-80.
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