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Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa

Authors :
Janusz T. Paweska
Lucille H. Blumberg
Charl Liebenberg
Richard H. Hewlett
Antoinette A. Grobbelaar
Patricia A. Leman
Janice E. Croft
Louis H. Nel
Louise Nutt
Robert Swanepoel
Source :
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 12, Pp 1965-1967 (2006)
Publication Year :
2006
Publisher :
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006.

Abstract

Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabieslike disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred ≈80 km from the site where the only other known human infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10806040 and 10806059
Volume :
12
Issue :
12
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.00ccfe4d947a48cf8fb6d6af2b2914e7
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1212.060764