Rabies encephalomyelitis: Clinical, neuroradiological, and pathological findings in 4 transplant recipients

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 873-882

  Burton, Elizabeth C ^a   Burns, Dennis K ^b   Opatowsky, Michael J ^a   El Feky, Waleed H ^a   Fischbach, Bernard ^a   Melton, Larry ^a   Sanchez, Edmund ^a   Randall, Henry ^a   Watkins, David L ^a   Chang, Jack ^a   Klintmalm, Goran ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GRAFT INFECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RABIES VIRUS; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY; SPLEEN CELL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RABIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RABIES;

EID: 20844454215     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.62.6.873     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Noah DL, Drenzek CL, Smith JS, et al. Epidemiology of human rabies in the United States, 1980 to 1996. Ann Intern Med. 1998;128:922-930.
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases of rabies in human beings in the United States, by circumstances of exposure and rabies virus variant, 1990-2001. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/ professional/publications /surveillance/surveillance01/table2-01.htm. Accessed September 7, 2004.
3. Krebs JW, Wheeling JT, Childs JE. Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2002. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2003;223:1736-1748.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. First human death associated with raccoon rabies - Virginia, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2003;52:1102-1103.
5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Human death associated with bat rabies - California, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53:33-35.
6. Human rabies prevention-United States, 1999. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). [erratum in MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1999;48:16 and MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2000;49:737]. MMWR Recomm Rep. 1999;48:1-21.
7. Helmick CG, Tauxe RV, Vernon AA. Is there a risk to contacts of patients with rabies? Rev Infect Dis. 1987;9:511-518.
8. Noah DL, Smith MG, Gotthardt JC, et al. Mass human exposure to rabies in New Hampshire: exposures, treatment, and cost. Am J Public Health. 1996;86:1149-1151.
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Investigation of rabies infections in organ donor and transplant recipients - Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53:586-589.
10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Update: investigation of rabies infections in organ donor and transplant recipients - Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53:615-616.
11. Srinivasan A, Burton EC, Kuehnert MJ, et al. Transmission of rabies virus from an organ donor to four transplant recipients. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:1103-1111.
12. Rupprecht CE, Hanlon CA, Hemachudha T. Rabies re-examined. Lancet Infect Dis. 2002;2:327-343.
13. Morimoto K, Patel M, Corisdeo S, et al. Characterization of a unique variant of bat rabies virus responsible for newly emerging human cases in North America. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996;93:5653-5658.
14. Hemachudha T, Phuapradit P. Rabies. Curr Opin Neurol. 1997;10:260-267.
15. Mrak RE, Young L. Rabies encephalitis in humans: pathology, pathogenesis and pathophysiology. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 1994;53:1-10.
16. Ray NB, Ewalt LC, Lodmel DL. Rabies virus replication in primary murine bone marrow macrophages and in human and murine macrophage-like cell lines: implications for viral persistence. J Virol. 1995;69:764-772.
17. Jackson AC, Ye H, Phelan CC, et al. Extraneural organ involvement in human rabies. Lab Invest. 1999;79:945-951.
18. Warrell MJ, Warrell DA. Rabies and other Lyssavirus diseases. Lancet. 2004;363:959-969.
19. Warrell DA. The clinical picture of rabies in man. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1976;70:188-195.
20. Hemachudha T, Laothamatas J, Rupprecht CE. Human rabies: a disease of complex neuropathogenetic mechanisms and diagnostic challenges. Lancet Neurol. 2002;1:101-109.
21. Dupont JR, Earle KM. Human rabies encephalitis: a study of forty-nine fatal cases with a review of the literature. Neurology. 1965;15:1023-1034.
22. Emmons RW, Leonard LL, DeGenaro F Jr, et al. A case of human rabies with prolonged survival. Intervirology. 1973;1:60-72.
23. Neiman J, Haapaniemi HM, Hillbom M. Neurological complications of drug abuse: pathophysiological mechanism. Eur J Neurol. 2000;7:595-606.
24. Chehrenama M, Zagardo MT, Koski CL. Subarachnoid hemorrhage in a patient with Lyme disease. Neurology. 1997;48:520-523.
25. Jain R, Deveikis J, Hickenbottom S, Mukherji SK. Vericella-zoster vasculitis presenting with intracranial hemorrhage. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003;24:971-974.
26. Patey O, Ollivaud L, Breuil J, Lafaix C. Unusual neurologic manifestations occurring during dengue fever infection. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1993;48:793-802.
27. Pleasure SJ, Fischbein N. Correlation of clinical and neuroimaging findings in a case of rabies encephalitis. Arch Neurol. 2000;57:1765-1769.
28. Mani J, Reddy BC, Borgohain R, et al. Magnetic resonance imaging in rabies. Postgrad Med J. 2003;79:352-354.
29. Desai RV, Jain V, Singh P, et al. Radiculomyelitic rabies: can MR imaging help? AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2002;23:632-634.
30. Awasthi M, Parmar H, Patankar T, Castillo M. Imaging findings in rabies encephalitis. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2001;22:677-680.
31. Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Marder BA, Levi ME, et al. Naturally acquired West Nile virus encephalomyelitis in transplant recipients: clinical, laboratory, diagnostic, and neuropathological features. Arch Neurol. 2004;61:1210-1220.
32. Reddy SA, Schucany WG, Opatowsky MJ. Altered mental status in a 66-year-old woman during the late summer months. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 2004;17:353-356.
33. Houff SA, Burton RC, Wilson RW, et al. Human-to-human transmission of rabies virus by corneal transplant. N Engl J Med. 1979;300:603-604.
34. Gode GR, Bhide NK. Two rabies deaths after corneal grafts from one donor. Lancet. 1988;2:791.
35. Human-to-human transmission of rabies via corneal transplant - Thailand. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1981;30:473-474.
36. Imported human rabies - France, 1992. MMWRMorb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1992;41:953-955.
37. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recovery of a patient from clinical rabies - Wisconsin, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53:1171-1173.