Natural rabies infection in a domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus): A report from India

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Baby, Julie ^a   Mani, Reeta Subramaniam ^b   Abraham, Swapna Susan ^a   Thankappan, Asha T ^a   Pillai, Prasad Madhavan ^a   Anand, Ashwini Manoor ^b   Madhusudana, Shampur Narayan ^b   Ramachandran, Jayachandran ^c   Sreekumar, Sachin ^c  

^a Chief Disease Investigation Office   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^c Clinician Centre   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CHICKEN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE SEQUENCE; INDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RABIES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; RABIES VIRUS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BRAIN; CHICKENS; INDIA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; POULTRY DISEASES; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 84938771315     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003942     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. World Health Organization.WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies. Second report. World Health Organization Technical Report Series 982, Geneva: WHO; 2013.
2. Schwarte LH. Diseases of Poultry. 5th ed. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH publishing Co; 1965.
3. Dean DJ, Abelseth MK, Atanasiu P. The fluorescent antibody test. In: Meslin FX, Koprowsky H, Kaplan MM, editors. WHO laboratory techniques in rabies. 4th ed. Geneva: WHO;1996 Pp 88–95.
4. Mani RS, Madhusudana SN, Mahadevan A, Reddy V, Belludi AY, Shankar SK. Utility of real-time Taqman PCR for antemortem and postmortem diagnosis of human rabies. J Med Virol. 2014; 86:1804–1812. doi: 10.1002/jmv.23814 PMID: 24136727
5. Madhusudana SN, Mani R, Ashwin YB, Desai A. Rabid fox bites and human rabies in a village community in southern India: epidemiological and laboratory investigations, management and follow-up. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2013; 13:324–329. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1146 PMID: 23473223
6. Tamura K, Peterson D, Peterson N, Stecher G, Nei M, and Kumar S. MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods. Mol Biol Evol 2011; 28: 2731–2739. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr121 PMID: 21546353
7. Nikolitsch M. Rabies in a human caused by goose bite. Arch Hyg Bakteriol. 1956; 140(4): 272–275. PMID: 13340743
8. Paarmanne E. Rabies in birds. Z Hyg Infektionskr. 1955; 141(2):103–109 PMID: 13257386
9. Gough PM, Jorgenson RD. Rabies antibodies in sera of wild birds. J Wildl Dis. 1976; 12:392–5. PMID: 16498885
10. Shanon LM, Poulton JL., Emmons RW., Woodie JD, Fowler ME. Serological survey for rabies antibodies in Raptors from California. J Wildl Dis. 1988; 24:264–267. PMID: 3286906
11. Jorgenson RD, Gough PM, Graham DL. Experimental rabies in a great horned owl. J Wildl Dis. 1976; 12:444–447. PMID: 16498892
12. Abraham SS, Sanjay D, George A, Julie B. Epidemiological observations on rabies in Kerala, Indian Veterinary Journal. 2010; 87:222–224.
13. Jayakumar R, Tirumurugaan KG, Ganga G, Kumanan K, Mahalinganainar A. Characterization of nucleoprotein gene sequence of an Indian isolate of rabies virus. Acta Virol. 2004; 48:47–50. PMID: 15230475
14. Nanayakkara S, Smith JS, Rupprecht CE. Rabies in Sri Lanka: splendid isolation. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003; 9:368–371. PMID: 12643834
15. Nadin-Davis SA, Turner G, Paul JP, Madhusudana SN, Wandeler AI. Emergence of Arctic-like rabies lineage in India. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007; 13:111–116. PMID: 17370523
16. Aravindhbabu RP, Manoharan S, Ramadass P, Chandran ND. Rabies in South Indian Cows: An evidence of Sri Lankan rabies virus variant infection based on the analysis of partial nucleoprotein gene. Indian J Virol. 2011; 22:138–141. doi: 10.1007/s13337-011-0050-3 PMID: 23637516
17. Pant GR, Lavenir R, Wong FY, Certoma A, Larrous F, Bhatta DR et al. Recent emergence spread and of an Arctic-related phylogenetic lineage of rabies virus in Nepal. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013;21; 7(11): e2560.