title: Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa.
authors.forename: Janusz T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Paweska
authors.forename: Lucille H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Blumberg
authors.forename: Charl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liebenberg
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Hewlett
authors.forename: Antoinette A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Grobbelaar
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Leman
authors.forename: Janice E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Croft
authors.forename: Louis H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Nel
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nutt
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Swanepoel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D018114:Lyssavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D018353:Rhabdoviridae Infections / Q000821:virology*; D013019:South Africa
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral