Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa

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

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Published in:	Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 12; no. 12; pp. 1965 - 1967
Main Authors:	Paweska, Janusz T, Blumberg, Lucille H, Liebenberg, Charl, Hewlett, Richard H, Grobbelaar, Antoinette A, Leman, Patricia A, Croft, Janice E, Nel, Louis H, Nutt, Louise, Swanepoel, Robert
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-12-2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:	Aged Animals Base Sequence Bats Brain - virology Dispatch Duvenhage virus fatal human infection Fatal Outcome Fluorescent Antibody Technique Health aspects Histocytochemistry Humans Lyssavirus - genetics Lyssavirus - isolation & purification Male Molecular Sequence Data Phylogeny Rabies rabies-related lyssavirus Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rhabdoviridae Infections - virology RNA, Viral - chemistry RNA, Viral - genetics South Africa South Africa
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Summary:	Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabies-like disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred approximately 80 km from the site where the only other known human infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.
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ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid1212.060764