Furious rabies after an atypical exposure

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 0264-0268

  Wertheim, Heiman F L ^a   Nguyen, Thai Q ^a   Nguyen, Kieu Anh T ^a   De Jong, Menno D ^a   Taylor, Walter R J ^a   Le, Tan V ^a   Nguyen, Ha H ^a   Nguyen, Hanh T H ^a   Farrar, Jeremy ^a   Horby, Peter ^a   Nguyen, Hien D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BITE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOG; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHOBIA; RABIES; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FATALITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; INHALATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; BRAIN DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOGS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA; SPASM;

EID: 63449104393     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000044     Document Type: Article

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