Travel-associated Rabies in Austrian Man

Authors :: Franz Allerberger
Gernot Brunner
Sandra Revilla-Fernández
Peter Kaufmann
Guenter J. Krejs
Robert Krause
Angelika Loitsch
KH Smolle
Zoltán Bagó
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 11, Iss 5, Pp 719-721 (2005)
Publication Year :: 2005
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2005.
Abstract: Rabies developed in an Austrian man after he was bitten by a dog in Agadir, Morocco. Diagnosis was confirmed by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry. The patient's girlfriend was bitten by the same dog, but she did not become ill.