Fatal human rabies due to Duvenhage virus from a bat in Kenya: failure of treatment with coma-induction, ketamine, and antiviral drugs

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2009 Jul 28;3(7):e428. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000428.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Chiroptera / virology*
  • Coma / chemically induced*
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kenya
  • Ketamine / therapeutic use*
  • Lyssavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Rabies / drug therapy*
  • Rabies / virology*
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Treatment Failure

Substances

  • Antiviral Agents
  • RNA, Viral
  • Ketamine

Associated data

  • GENBANK/FJ515696