Case Report 2 :Rabies Through Organ Transplant

Document Type : Case report

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1 Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait.

2 Department of the Medicine, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kuwait

3 Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Abstract

The rabies virus causes fatal encephalitis and can be transmitted through tissue or organ transplantation. In March 2015, a kidney recipient with no reported exposures to potentially rabid animals died from rabies after transplantation.

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Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases
Volume 6, Issue 4
December 2016
Pages 182-184

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