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

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  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
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  Aged Animals Base Sequence Brain Dispatch Fatal Outcome Fluorescent Antibody Technique Histocytochemistry Humans Lyssavirus Male Molecular Sequence Data Phylogeny Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rhabdoviridae Infections RNA, Viral

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1965-1967.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  South Africa
• Location:
  Africa
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d3ebff177022c7182425fd5c377696bddd1eb06ed2d38e34643976e442367bfa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16429/cdc_16429_DS1.pdf
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