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. 2020 Jul 6;91(0):e1-e4.
doi: 10.4102/jsava.v91i0.2036.

Human rabies associated with domestic cat exposures in South Africa, 1983-2018

Antoinette A Grobbelaar  1 , Lucille H Blumberg, Veerle Dermaux-Msimang, Chantel A Le Roux, Naazneen Moolla, Janusz T Paweska, Jacqueline Weyer
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Human rabies associated with domestic cat exposures in South Africa, 1983-2018

Antoinette A Grobbelaar et al. J S Afr Vet Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: South Africa; cat rabies; human rabies; rabies; rabies lyssavirus.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Location of confirmed human rabies cases associated with cat exposures in South Africa, 1983–2018.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Maximum likelihood phylogenetic reconstruction of partial rabies nucleocapsid gene sequences from eight human rabies cases resulting from cat exposures in South Africa (indicated in boldface) and other Genbank sequences representing rabies-related and lyssavirus variants. Node values indicate bootstrap statistical support.
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