title: Update on rabies.
abstract: Rabies remains an important public health problem worldwide due to endemic dog rabies in developing countries. Rabies was a re-emerging disease in the United States during the 1990s due to bat rabies virus variants. Australian bat lyssavirus also emerged in Australian bat populations and caused two human deaths. There have been important recent advances in our knowledge of the pathogenesis of rabies and in our ability to diagnose and prevent it.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, Connell 725, 76 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2V7, Canada. jacksona@post.queensu.ca
authors.forename: Alan C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000821:virology*; D004199:Disease Vectors; D006801:Humans; D011818:Rabies / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D011819:Rabies Vaccines