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SUBMITTER: Caicedo Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4809748 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caicedo Yolanda Y Paez Andres A Kuzmin Ivan I Niezgoda Michael M Orciari Lillian A LA Yager Pamela A PA Recuenco Sergio S Franka Richard R Velasco-Villa Andres A Willoughby Rodney E RE
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 20150501 5
<h4>Background</h4>Rabies is an acute fatal encephalitis caused by all members of the Lyssavirus genus. The first human rabies survivor without benefit of prior vaccination was reported from Milwaukee in 2005. We report a second unvaccinated patient who showed early recovery from rabies and then died accidentally during convalescence, providing an unparalleled opportunity to examine the histopathology as well as immune and virological correlates of early recovery from human rabies.<h4>Methods</h ...[more]