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.
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| author | 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 |
| author_facet | 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 |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-00ccfe4d947a48cf8fb6d6af2b2914e72022-12-21T18:52:41ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592006-12-0112121965196710.3201/eid1212.060764Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South AfricaJanusz T. PaweskaLucille H. BlumbergCharl LiebenbergRichard H. HewlettAntoinette A. GrobbelaarPatricia A. LemanJanice E. CroftLouis H. NelLouise NuttRobert SwanepoelDuvenhage 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.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0764_articleDuvenhage virusrabies-related lyssavirusfatal human infectionSouth Africadispatch |
| spellingShingle | 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 Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa Emerging Infectious Diseases Duvenhage virus rabies-related lyssavirus fatal human infection South Africa dispatch |
| title | Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa |
| title_full | Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa |
| title_short | Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa |
| title_sort | fatal human infection with rabies related duvenhage virus south africa |
| topic | Duvenhage virus rabies-related lyssavirus fatal human infection South Africa dispatch |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0764_article |
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