RABIES Flashcards
1
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What’s the rabies genome?
A
- ssRNA
2
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What is a source of rabies virus transmission?
A
- Dogs (most common reservoir of human rabies), cats,…
It’s a zoonotic disease
3
Q
How is rabies virus transmitted?
A
-Lick
- Scratch and
- Bite from infected animals
4
Q
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)
5
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What’s the suitable post-mortem specimen (dead person) for rabies?
A
- Brain specimen
6
Q
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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