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)

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: *Travel; Adult; Animals; Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use; Back Pain/etiology; Bites and Stings/*complications; Contact Tracing; Dog Diseases/transmission; Dogs; Female; Guinea-Bissau; Humans; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Portugal; post-exposure prophylaxis; Rabies/*diagnosis/drug therapy/mortality; Rabies Vaccines/administration & dosage; Rabies virus/genetics/*isolation & purification; Saliva/virology

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

P Santos, E Calé, Laurent Dacheux, Hervé Bourhy, J Gouveia, et al.. Fatal case of imported human rabies in Amadora, Portugal, August 2011.. Eurosurveillance, 2012, 17 (12), ⟨10.2807/ese.17.12.20130-en⟩. ⟨pasteur-01481640⟩