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

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

doi:10.3201/eid1212.060764

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

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

Authors

Janusz T Paweska¹, Lucille H Blumberg, Charl Liebenberg, Richard H Hewlett, Antoinette A Grobbelaar, Patricia A Leman, Janice E Croft, Louis H Nel, Louise Nutt, Robert Swanepoel

Affiliation

¹ National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa.

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