Abstract
Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabieslike disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. This occurred ≈80 km from the site where the only other known human infection with the virus had occurred 36 years earlier.
Highlights
Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabieslike disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006
In Africa, Lagos bat virus (LBV) and Duvenhage virus (DUVV) are associated with bats, but Mokola virus (MOKV) is uniquely associated with shrews and rodents, not bats
*National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa; †Durbanville Mediclinic, Cape Town, South Africa; ‡University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa; and §University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa isolations of LBV have been reported, including 8 from fruit bats and a cat in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa, but the virus has never been associated with human disease [2,3]
Summary
Duvenhage virus was isolated from a patient who died of a rabieslike disease after being scratched by a bat early in 2006. In Africa, LBV and DUVV are associated with bats, but MOKV is uniquely associated with shrews and rodents, not bats. *National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, South Africa; †Durbanville Mediclinic, Cape Town, South Africa; ‡University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa; and §University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa isolations of LBV have been reported, including 8 from fruit bats and a cat in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa, but the virus has never been associated with human disease [2,3].
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