Case Report 2 :Rabies Through Organ Transplant | ||
Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||
Article 5, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 182-184 PDF (196.49 K) | ||
Document Type: Case report | ||
DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2016.9980 | ||
Authors | ||
Mariam Abdulrhman Al-Fadhli* 1; Saroj Bella Grover2; Mohamed Ahmed Saraya3 | ||
1Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait. | ||
2Department of the Medicine, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kuwait | ||
3Department 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. | ||
Keywords | ||
rabies; Transmission; recipient; infectious | ||
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