RABIES Flashcards

1
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What’s the rabies genome?

A
  • ssRNA
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What is a source of rabies virus transmission?

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  • Dogs (most common reservoir of human rabies), cats,…

It’s a zoonotic disease

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3
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How is rabies virus transmitted?

A

-Lick
- Scratch and
- Bite from infected animals

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What’s the suitable ante-mortem specimen (lively person specimen) for rabies?

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  • CFS
  • Saliva
  • Nuchal Skin biopsy (Section of skin, must be taken from the nape of the neck)
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What’s the suitable post-mortem specimen (dead person) for rabies?

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  • Brain specimen
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What are the 2 types of human rabies presentation?
How do they differ

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  • Furious rabies presentation: Progresses rapidly as anxiety confusion, and agitation. As the disease progresses, the patient become delirious, behaves abnormally, hallucinates and
    may have a variety of psychiatric symptoms before becoming comatose → death.
  • The dumb or “paralytic” rabies: clinically presents similar to poliomyelitis but presents with descending paralysis, coma and death.
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