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Case Reports
. 2006 Dec;12(12):1965-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1212.060764.

Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa

Janusz T Paweska  1 , Lucille H Blumberg, Charl Liebenberg, Richard H Hewlett, Antoinette A Grobbelaar, Patricia A Leman, Janice E Croft, Louis H Nel, Louise Nutt, Robert Swanepoel
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Fatal human infection with rabies-related Duvenhage virus, South Africa

Janusz T Paweska et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Dec.

Abstract

Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabies-like disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred approximately 80 km from the site where the only other known human infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.

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Neighbor-joining tree relating a 372-bp nucleotide sequence of the nucleoprotein gene of the recent Duvenhage virus (DUVV) isolate (boldface) to representative sequences of the known lyssavirus genotypes, including South African dog and mongoose isolates and the reference challenge virus strain (CVS) of rabies virus (RABV) (GenBank accession nos. are indicated in parentheses). Bootstrap values were determined by 1,000 replicates. ABLV, Australian bat lyssavirus; EBLV, European bat lyssavirus; MOKV, Mokola virus; LBV, Lagos bat virus.
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