Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Huang XY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5497382 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Xue-Yong XY Li Xing-Le XL Wu Shu-Yu SY Gu Yu-Lei YL Lv Xin-Jun XJ Klena John David JD Xu Bian-Li BL
Infectious diseases of poverty 20170705 1
<h4>Background</h4>Rabies is a serious reemerging zoonosis in China. At present human rabies cases are primarily diagnosed based on clinical presentation.<h4>Case presentation</h4>In August 2012, a woman and her son were attacked by a stray dog in Henan, China. The son received rabies postexposure prophylaxis (wound treatment followed by vaccine, no immunoglobulin), however, the mother did not. Rabies infection was subsequently laboratory confirmed in the mother and she died in December; her son ...[more]