Human rabies from exposure to a vampire bat in Mexico --- Louisiana, 2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 60, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 1050-1052

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ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BAT; BITES AND STINGS; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; FATALITY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; NOTE; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CHIROPTERA; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MEXICO; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051882986     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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