Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?

Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in persons. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bit...

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Autores principales: Badilla, Xiomara, Pérez-Herra, Victor, Quirós, Ligia, Morice, Ana, Jiménez, Edwin, Sáenz, Elizabeth, Salazar, Fernando, Fernández, Rodrigo, Orciari, Lillian, Yager, Pamela, Whitfield, Sylvia, Rupprecht, Charles E.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12781014
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0906.020632
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author Badilla, Xiomara
Pérez-Herra, Victor
Quirós, Ligia
Morice, Ana
Jiménez, Edwin
Sáenz, Elizabeth
Salazar, Fernando
Fernández, Rodrigo
Orciari, Lillian
Yager, Pamela
Whitfield, Sylvia
Rupprecht, Charles E.
author_facet Badilla, Xiomara
Pérez-Herra, Victor
Quirós, Ligia
Morice, Ana
Jiménez, Edwin
Sáenz, Elizabeth
Salazar, Fernando
Fernández, Rodrigo
Orciari, Lillian
Yager, Pamela
Whitfield, Sylvia
Rupprecht, Charles E.
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description Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in persons. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector.
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spelling pubmed-30001412010-12-16 Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica? Badilla, Xiomara Pérez-Herra, Victor Quirós, Ligia Morice, Ana Jiménez, Edwin Sáenz, Elizabeth Salazar, Fernando Fernández, Rodrigo Orciari, Lillian Yager, Pamela Whitfield, Sylvia Rupprecht, Charles E. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in persons. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3000141/ /pubmed/12781014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0906.020632 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
spellingShingle Dispatch
Badilla, Xiomara
Pérez-Herra, Victor
Quirós, Ligia
Morice, Ana
Jiménez, Edwin
Sáenz, Elizabeth
Salazar, Fernando
Fernández, Rodrigo
Orciari, Lillian
Yager, Pamela
Whitfield, Sylvia
Rupprecht, Charles E.
Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?
title Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?
title_full Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?
title_fullStr Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?
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title_short Human Rabies: A Reemerging Disease in Costa Rica?
title_sort human rabies: a reemerging disease in costa rica?
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12781014
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0906.020632
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