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- Title
Human Rabies From Exposure to a Vampire Bat in Mexico- Louisiana, 2010.
- Authors
Balsamo, Gary; Ratard, Raoult C.; Thoppil, Deepu R.; Thoppil, Monika; Pino, Fernando V.; Rupprecht, Charles E.; Sprecher, Armand G.; Petersen, Brett W.
- Abstract
The article discusses the case of vampire bat rabies in a 19-year-old migrant farm worker in Louisiana in August 2010. The patient was bitten by a bat in Michoacán, Mexico in July, according to his mother. His symptoms include hyperesthesia of the left shoulder, weakness of the left hand, generalized areflexia, fever of 101.1°Fahrenheit (F) and respiratory distress. The postmortem brain tissues of the patient show rabies virus antigen and nucleic acid amplification and sequencing were used to determine the source of the antigen. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encouraged health-care providers to consider rabies risk in international travelers. INSET: What is already known on this topic?.
- Subjects
LOUISIANA; MORELIA (Michoacan de Ocampo, Mexico); MICHOACAN de Ocampo (Mexico); MEXICO; VAMPIRE bats; RABIES; MIGRANT agricultural workers
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011, Vol 306, Issue 13, p1437
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article