title: [Rabid hedgehog in inner-city area of Budapest].
abstract: A family found a hedgehog in the inner-city area of Budapest (1st District, Castle Quarter). While playing with it, the four members of the family got beslavered by the hedgehog who then died. The dead animal was subjected to obligatory veterinarian examination abduction, and it proved to be rabid. All members of the family had to be inoculated against rabies as the probability of infection could not be excluded by the epidemiological examination. Surveying the available literature, if could not be found data relating to hedgehogs' rabies.
authors.affiliation: Allami Népegészségügyi és Tisztiorvosi Szolgálat Fövárosi Intézete Budapest.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Faragó
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006364:Hedgehogs; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007114:Immunization; D008297:Male; D011818:Rabies / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012463:Saliva / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D011819:Rabies Vaccines