Fatal human rabies due to duvenhage virus from a bat in Kenya: Failure of treatment with coma-induction, ketamine, and antiviral drugs

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Van Thiel, Pieter Paul A M ^a   De Bie, Rob M A ^a   Eftimov, Filip ^a   Tepaske, Robert ^a   Zaaijer, Hans L ^a   Van Doornum, Gerard J J ^b   Schutten, Martin ^b   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^b   Majoie, Charles B L M ^a   Aronica, Eleonora ^a   Fehlner Gardiner, Christine ^c   Wandeler, Alex I ^c   Kager, Piet A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMANTADINE; CEFOTAXIME; DESMOPRESSIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; PARACETAMOL; PENTOBARBITAL; RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE; RIBAVIRIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; UBIDECARENONE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGITATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BAT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DUVENHAGE VIRUS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPESTHESIA; KENYA; LUNG INFECTION; MALAISE; MOUSE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; RABIES; RHABDOVIRUS; SKIN BIOPSY; TREMOR; VACCINATION; VOMITING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RABIES VIRUS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHIROPTERA; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; KETAMINE; LYSSAVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 70350202994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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