Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa

Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Dec;12(12):1965-7. doi: 10.3201/eid1212.060764.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Base Sequence
  • Brain / virology
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Histocytochemistry
  • Humans
  • Lyssavirus / genetics
  • Lyssavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Male
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Viral / chemistry
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections / virology*
  • South Africa

Substances

  • RNA, Viral

Associated data

  • GENBANK/DQ676932