Reexamination of human rabies case with long incubation, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1950-1951

  Johnson, Nicholas ^a,c   Fooks, Anthony ^a   McColl, Kenneth ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FATALITY; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; TIME; TRAVEL; VIROLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; BRAIN; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 57049180191     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080944     Document Type: Letter

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