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| Macedo,Carla Isabel; Carnieli Jr,Pedro; Brandão,Paulo Eduardo; Rosa,Elizabeth S. Travassos da; Oliveira,Rafael de Novaes; Castilho,Juliana Galera; Medeiros,Rita; Machado,Rosangela Rocha; Oliveira,Rosely Cerqueira de; Carrieri,Maria Luiza; Kotait,Ivanete. |
| Rapid diagnosis of rabies in suspected human cases influences post-exposure prophylaxis for potential contacts of the patient and ensures appropriate patient management. Apart from the central nervous system (CNS), rabies virus (RABV) is usually present in small sensory nerves adjacent to hair follicles of infected humans. We used an RT-PCR, with primers targeted to the 3' terminal portion of the nucleoprotein gene (N), to test neck-skin samples of nine patients who had rabies in order to validate a diagnostic method that could serve as an additional tool for rabies diagnosis, particularly in antemortem samples. Six of eight postmortem samples were found to be positive for rabies by RT-PCR, and one of two samples collected antemortem was positive with this... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Human rabies; Neck-skin; Diagnosis; RT-PCR; DNA sequencing. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702006000500008 |
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| Fahl,Willian Oliveira; Carnieli Jr,Pedro; Castilho,Juliana Galera; Carrieri,Maria Luiza; Kotait,Ivanete; Iamamoto,Keila; Oliveira,Rafael Novaes; Brandão,Paulo Eduardo. |
| In Brazil, bats have been assigned an increasing importance in public health as they are important rabies reservoirs. Phylogenetic studies have shown that rabies virus (RABV) strains from frugivorous bats Artibeus spp. are closely associated to those from the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus, but little is known about the molecular diversity of RABV in Artibeus spp. The N and G genes of RABV isolated from Artibeus spp. and cattle infected by D. rotundus were sequenced, and phylogenetic trees were constructed. The N gene nucleotides tree showed three clusters: one for D. rotundus and two for Artibeus spp. Regarding putative N amino acid-trees, two clusters were formed, one for D. rotundus and another for Artibeus spp. RABV G gene phylogeny supported the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Rabies Bat Artibeus spp.; Desmodus rotundus; Phylogeny; Molecular epidemiology. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000600008 |
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