This volume reviews the unique and common features of rhabdoviruses, which have a very wide host range and are associated with human diseases and also infect domestic livestock and agricultural plants, causing enormous economic loss.

InhaltsangabePreface.- Genetic comparison of the rhabdoviruses from animals and plants.- Australian bat lyssavirus, a recently discovered new rhabdovirus.- Pathogenesis of rabies.- Bovine ephemeral fever in Australia and the World.- Fish rhabdoviruses: molecular epidemiology and evolution.- Reverse genetics on fish rhabdoviruses: tools to study the pathogenesis of fish rhabdoviruses.- Plant rhabdoviruses.- Recombinant rhabdoviruses: vectors for vaccine development and gene therapy.- Subject index.