Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa.
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.
Paweska
Janusz T
JT
National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa.
Blumberg
Lucille H
LH
Liebenberg
Charl
C
Hewlett
Richard H
RH
Grobbelaar
Antoinette A
AA
Leman
Patricia A
PA
Croft
Janice E
JE
Nel
Louis H
LH
Nutt
Louise
L
Swanepoel
Robert
R
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
D012367:RNA, Viral