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- Title
Human Rabies--Michigan, 2009.
- Authors
Signs, K.; Stobierski, M. G.; Rupprecht, C. E.; Robertson, K.
- Abstract
The article discusses the case of a 55-year-old man who went to an emergency department in a Michigan hospital on October 30, 2009 because of pain and progressive numbness in the left hand and arm and pain in lower neck and upper back. He died 12 days after he was hospitalized. His relative recounted to the infectious disease physician that the patient had bat exposure approximately nine months before onset of illness. On November 14, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that rabies virus antigens were detected in the man's brain, based on the results of the direct fluorescent antibody test performed using the victim's brain specimens. INSET: What is already known about this topic?.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BACKACHE; OLDER men; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); RABIES; BRAIN imaging; DISEASES in older people
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011, Vol 305, Issue 21, p2163
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article