1. Fatal case of imported human rabies in Amadora, Portugal, August 2011
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Laurent Dacheux, Hervé Bourhy, Etelvina Calé, João Gouveia, Paula Vasconcelos, Ana Maria Ribeiro dos Santos, Public Health Department of Amadora, Directorate-General of Health [Lisbonne], Centre Collaborateur de l'OMS pour la Rage - Dynamique des lyssavirus et adaptation à l'hôte (CC-OMS), Institut Pasteur [Paris], Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte (CHLN), and Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)
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Bites and Stings/*complications ,Veterinary medicine ,Epidemiology ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Saliva/virology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,MESH: Dogs ,0302 clinical medicine ,Guinea-Bissau ,MESH: Animals ,MESH: Guinea-Bissau ,Bites and Stings ,Dog Diseases ,MESH: Travel ,Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use ,Animal Bites ,Travel ,0303 health sciences ,Raiva ,MESH: Rabies Vaccines ,virus diseases ,MESH: Bites and Stings ,MESH: Rabies virus ,3. Good health ,Rabies Vaccines/administration & dosage ,Rabies/*diagnosis/drug therapy/mortality ,MESH: Portugal ,post-exposure prophylaxis ,[SDV.MP.VIR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Virology ,Female ,Adult ,MESH: Antiviral Agents ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Rabies ,Doenças infeciosas ,MESH: Dog Diseases ,030231 tropical medicine ,Dog Diseases/transmission ,Antiviral Agents ,Disease course ,MESH: Contact Tracing ,03 medical and health sciences ,Dogs ,MESH: Rabies ,Virology ,medicine ,Humans ,Animals ,MESH: Saliva ,Post-exposure prophylaxis ,Saliva ,MESH: Humans ,Portugal ,030306 microbiology ,business.industry ,General surgery ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,MESH: Adult ,MESH: Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Back Pain/etiology ,medicine.disease ,Rabies virus/genetics/*isolation & purification ,Rabies Vaccines ,Back Pain ,Rabies virus ,Guinea bissau ,MESH: Back Pain ,Contact Tracing ,business ,MESH: Female ,MESH: Post-Exposure Prophylaxis ,Contact tracing - Abstract
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.
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- 2012
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