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Fatal case of imported human rabies in Amadora, Portugal, August 2011.

P Santos 1 E Calé 2 Laurent Dacheux 3 Hervé Bourhy 3 J Gouveia 4 P Vasconcelos 2
1 Public Health Department of Amadora
2 Directorate-General of Health [Lisbonne]
3 CC-OMS - Centre Collaborateur de l'OMS pour la Rage - Dynamique des lyssavirus et adaptation à l'hôte
4 Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte (CHLN)
Abstract : We report on a case of imported human rabies in Portugal, in July 2011 in a woman who presented initially complaining of back pain, without relating exposure to animal bites. She had travelled from Portugal to Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, in April where she had been bitten by a dog on 1 May. She was diagnosed with rabies on 26 July and died two weeks later in spite of being treated following the Milwaukee protocol.
Keywords : Rabies Vaccines/administration & dosage Rabies virus/genetics/*isolation & purification Saliva/virology Rabies/*diagnosis/drug therapy/mortality post-exposure prophylaxis Portugal Polymerase Chain Reaction Humans Guinea-Bissau Female Dogs Dog Diseases/transmission Contact Tracing Bites and Stings/*complications Back Pain/etiology Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use Animals Adult *Travel
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P Santos, E Calé, Laurent Dacheux, Hervé Bourhy, J Gouveia, et al.. Fatal case of imported human rabies in Amadora, Portugal, August 2011.. Eurosurveillance, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2012, 17 (12), ⟨10.2807/ese.17.12.20130-en⟩. ⟨pasteur-01481640⟩

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