Fatal Human Infection with Rabies-related Duvenhage Virus, South Africa
Open Access
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (12), 1965-1967
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1212.060764
Abstract
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.Keywords
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