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Virus Name: Kowanyama

Abbreviation: KOWV

Status
Possible Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level
2

SALS Basis
Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.

Other Information

Antigenic Group
Ungrouped

Section VII - Natural Host Range (Additional text can be added below table)

Vertebrate (species and organ) and arthropod	No. isolations/No. tested	No. with antibody/No. tested Test used	Country and region


Subsequent tests have shown that neutralizing antibody in man was only in adult Aborigenes from north Queensland (4,5), and more extensively in cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, rats and wild birds (5).

Anopheles annulipes	2/171		Queensland, Australia
Anopheles amictus amictus	1/69		Queensland, AS, Oct.-Nov. 1963
Man		0/69 NT	Queensland, AS
Domestic fowl		1/47 NT
Horse		6/31 NT
Kangaroos		5/11 NT

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