Rabies: A Novel Clinical Presentation

Rabies is a fatal disease. Saliva of a rabid dog is a rich source of rabies virus. We report a patient who suffered of rabies, who was infected by abrasion caused by the nails of a rabid dog. Dogs often lick their nails and thereby transfer the rabies virus-contaminated saliva to their claws. Despit...

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Autores principales: Bawaskar, Himmatrao S., Bawaskar, Pramodini H., Bawaskar, Parag H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5752800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29307972
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_245_13
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description Rabies is a fatal disease. Saliva of a rabid dog is a rich source of rabies virus. We report a patient who suffered of rabies, who was infected by abrasion caused by the nails of a rabid dog. Dogs often lick their nails and thereby transfer the rabies virus-contaminated saliva to their claws. Despite treatment in our Intensive Care Unit and application of various pharmacological antidotes, we were unable to prevent the fatal outcome.
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spelling pubmed-57528002018-01-05 Rabies: A Novel Clinical Presentation Bawaskar, Himmatrao S. Bawaskar, Pramodini H. Bawaskar, Parag H. Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Rabies is a fatal disease. Saliva of a rabid dog is a rich source of rabies virus. We report a patient who suffered of rabies, who was infected by abrasion caused by the nails of a rabid dog. Dogs often lick their nails and thereby transfer the rabies virus-contaminated saliva to their claws. Despite treatment in our Intensive Care Unit and application of various pharmacological antidotes, we were unable to prevent the fatal outcome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5752800/ /pubmed/29307972 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_245_13 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, 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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