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Case Reports
. 1998 Aug;24(4):331-5.
doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.1998.00129.x.

Non-rabies Lyssavirus human encephalitis from fruit bats: Australian bat Lyssavirus (pteropid Lyssavirus) infection

H Samaratunga  1 , J W Searle, N Hudson
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Non-rabies Lyssavirus human encephalitis from fruit bats: Australian bat Lyssavirus (pteropid Lyssavirus) infection

H Samaratunga et al. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 1998 Aug.

Abstract

A 39-year-old woman died of encephalitis a few weeks after being scratched by fruit bats. Autopsy disclosed meningoencephalomyelitis, and revealed neuronal intracytoplasmic inclusions which had similarities to Negri bodies of rabies. Laboratory investigations detected a Lyssavirus type previously identified only in fruit bats. This appears to be the first human case of encephalitis due to this Lyssavirus type.

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