Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa

Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa

Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabieslike disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred ≈80 km from the site where the only other known human infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Janusz T. Paweska, Lucille H. Blumberg, Charl Liebenberg, Richard H. Hewlett, Antoinette A. Grobbelaar, Patricia A. Leman, Janice E. Croft, Louis H. Nel, Louise Nutt, Robert Swanepoel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Duvenhage virus
rabies-related lyssavirus
fatal human infection
South Africa
dispatch
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0764_article

Internet

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0764_article

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