Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2005)

Travel-associated Rabies in Austrian Man

  • Robert Krause,
  • Zoltán Bagó,
  • Sandra Revilla-Fernández,
  • Angelika Loitsch,
  • Franz Allerberger,
  • Peter Kaufmann,
  • Karl-Heinz Smolle,
  • Gernot Brunner,
  • Guenter J. Krejs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1105.041289
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 5
pp. 719 – 721

Abstract

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Rabies developed in an Austrian man after he was bitten by a dog in Agadir, Morocco. Diagnosis was confirmed by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry. The patient's girlfriend was bitten by the same dog, but she did not become ill.

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