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Favourable outcome in a patient bitten by a rabid bat infected with the European bat lyssavirus-1.
Acta clinica Belgica - 1 Jan 2000
Van Gucht S, Verlinde R, Colyn J, Vanderpas J, Vanhoof R, Roels S, Francart A, Brochier B, Suin V
Abstract excerpt
The classic rabies virus (genotype 1) has been eliminated in Western Europe, but related lyssaviruses still circulate in local bats. In August 2010, a Belgian photographer was bitten upon provocation of a disoriented Eptesicus serotinus bat in Spain. The bat was infected with European bat lyssavirus-1 (genotype 5). The isolate proved highly neurovirulent in mice. The patient had received preventive rabies...
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