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

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

  • Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Dec;12(12):1965-7. doi: 10.3201/eid1212.060764.
Janusz T Paweska 1,  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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Affiliation

  • 1 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa.
PMID: 17326954 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.

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