Rabies lecture Flashcards
1
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What are the characteristics of rabies
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- 100% fatal because there is no available treatment
- 100% preventable due to post-exposure vaccine
- Dogs are reservoirs of human rabies virus
2
Q
T/F: Dogs are the only animals that carry the rabies virus
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Fales, cats, livestock, bats also can carry rabies
3
Q
MOT of rabies
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*Bites, stretches, and licks from infected animals. Rabies is present in the saliva of infected dogs
4
Q
Rabies pathogenesis
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The virus enters via an animal bite and replicates in muscles and skin
- Virus infects the PNS
- Rabies replicates in the dorsal root ganglia and travels up the spine to the brain and infects the brain
- Virus travels from the brain to other tissues eg kidney
5
Q
List the 2 types of rabies presentation
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- Furious rabies
* The disease progress rapidly and presents as confusion, anxiety, and agitation. Then progresses with hallucination and the patient behaves abnormally before death and coma - The dumb or paralytic rabies
* Clinically similar to poliomyelitis > paralysis > coma > death
6
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Discuss the Post EP
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- Wash wound with water and soap and wound irrigation
* Seek medical attention and apply the iodine-based solution
