Case Report 2 :Rabies Through Organ Transplant | ||||
| Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2016, Page 182-184 PDF (196.49 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Case report | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/aeji.2016.9980 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Mariam Abdulrhman Al-Fadhli  1; Saroj Bella Grover2; Mohamed Ahmed Saraya3
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| 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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