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SENIOR MEMBERS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rabies: Beware of Bats!

AAP Grand Rounds July 2008, 20 (1) 5; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.20-1-5
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Source: De Serres G, Dallaire F, Cote M, et al. Bat rabies in the United States and Canada from 1950 through 2007: human cases with and without bat contact. Clin Infect Dis J. 2008;46(9):1329–1337; doi:10.1086/586745OpenUrlAbstract/FREE Full Text

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Question: Among patients with bat-variant rabies in the US and Canada, what were the historical and clinical characteristics that were documented?

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Study design: Retrospective case review

Investigators from the Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec and the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, reviewed indigenously acquired cases of bat-variant human rabies in Canada and the US from 1950 to 2007 to characterize those cases.

Cases were identified using case reports from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Canada Communicable Disease Report. Of the 61 cases identified, five occurred after organ transplantation and were excluded from further analysis. A bite was reported by 22 (39%) of the patients studied. Nine (16%) were touched by a bat without a …

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