Rabies infection recognized as a psychosis: A misleading psychiatric presentation

Rabies is a viral infection with a high mortality rate. Typical symptoms of rabies include hydrophobia, aerophobia, pharyngeal muscle spasms, and progressive paralysis. Psychiatric symptoms induced by rabies are not common. We report the case of a 26-year-old man in whom a quite typical clinical pre...

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Autores principales: Ferdaouss, Qassimi, Boujraf, Saïd, Ismail, Chiboub, Rim, El Amrani, Amine, Bout, Chadya, Aarab, Rachid, Aalouane
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2023
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37692826
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JNRP_20_2023
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author Ferdaouss, Qassimi
Boujraf, Saïd
Ismail, Chiboub
Rim, El Amrani
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Rachid, Aalouane
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description Rabies is a viral infection with a high mortality rate. Typical symptoms of rabies include hydrophobia, aerophobia, pharyngeal muscle spasms, and progressive paralysis. Psychiatric symptoms induced by rabies are not common. We report the case of a 26-year-old man in whom a quite typical clinical presentation of a brief psychotic disorder revealed rabies encephalitis.
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spelling pubmed-104831912023-09-08 Rabies infection recognized as a psychosis: A misleading psychiatric presentation Ferdaouss, Qassimi Boujraf, Saïd Ismail, Chiboub Rim, El Amrani Amine, Bout Chadya, Aarab Rachid, Aalouane J Neurosci Rural Pract Brief Report Rabies is a viral infection with a high mortality rate. Typical symptoms of rabies include hydrophobia, aerophobia, pharyngeal muscle spasms, and progressive paralysis. Psychiatric symptoms induced by rabies are not common. We report the case of a 26-year-old man in whom a quite typical clinical presentation of a brief psychotic disorder revealed rabies encephalitis. Scientific Scholar 2023-08-16 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10483191/ /pubmed/37692826 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/JNRP_20_2023 Text en © 2023 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Rabies infection recognized as a psychosis: A misleading psychiatric presentation
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