title: Rabies: relevance, prevention, and management in travel medicine.
abstract: Rabies is a zoonotic viral disease, transmitted only in mammals. Terrestrial rabies, predominantly transmitted by dogs, is the most important rabies cycle threatening humans. The causative neurotropic virus is a negative-stranded RNA virus of the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. This genus contains several rabies-related viruses. All variants are known or suspected to cause rabieslike diseases. Transmission occurs by the virus entering through the skin or the mucosa after bites, scratches, or preexisting injuries contaminated by the saliva of an infected mammal. Only 51 human rabies cases that have not been transmitted by animal bites are described.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland. christoph.hatz@unibas.ch
authors.forename: Christoph F R
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Hatz
authors.forename: Esther
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kuenzli
authors.forename: Maia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Funk
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019468:Disease Management; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011818:Rabies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D011819:Rabies Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014195:Travel
chemical_list: D011819:Rabies Vaccines