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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Badilla, Xiomara ; Pérez-Herra, Victor ; Quirós, Ligia ; Morice, Ana ; Jiménez, Edwin ; ... More +
Badilla, Xiomara ; Pérez-Herra, Victor ; Quirós, Ligia ; Morice, Ana ; Jiménez, Edwin ; Sáenz, Elizabeth ; Salazar, Fernando ; Fernández, Rodrigo ; Orciari, Lillian ; Yager, Pamela ; Whitfield, Sylvia ; Rupprecht, Charles E. Less -
Description:
Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in humans. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector.
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Animals
Bites And Stings
Cats
Cattle
Child
Chiroptera
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Disease Outbreaks
Dispatch
Dogs
Geography
Humans
Incidence
Male
Mice
Rabies
Rabies Virus
Risk Factors
Zoonoses

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 9(6):721-723.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Costa Rica
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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