NR AALO
AU anonym
AK Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
TI Human rabies - Montana and Washington, 1997
QU MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 1997 Aug 22; 46(33): 770-4
IA http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049057.htm
PT journal article
AB On January 5 and January 18, 1997, respectively, a man in Montana and a man in Washington died of neurologic illnesses initially suspected to be Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but diagnosed as rabies encephalitis during subsequent histologic examination on autopsy. The cases were not linked epidemiologically, and no secondary cases occurred. Postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) was administered to 113 potential contacts. This report summarizes the clinical presentations of the cases and the epidemiologic investigations by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and the Washington State Department of Health; nucleic acid sequencing indicated that the silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), respectively, were the probable sources of exposure.
MH Aged; Animals; Chiroptera/virology; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/diagnosis; Diagnosis, Differential; Fatal Outcome; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Montana/epidemiology; Rabies/diagnosis/*epidemiology/transmission; Rabies virus/isolation & purification; Washington/epidemiology
SP englisch
PO USA