Unexpected Rabies Variant Identified in Kinkajou (), Mato Grosso, Brazil

Overview

Journal Emerg Microbes Infect

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2020 May 15

PMID 32403984

Citations 6

Authors

Paulo Ricardo DellArmelina Rocha

Andres Velasco-Villa

Ernani Machado de Lima

Angela Salomoni

Alice Fusaro

Eunice da Conceicao Souza

Risia Lopes Negreiros

Vera Lucia Zafino

Gianpiero Zamperin

Stefania Leopardi

Isabella Monne

Paola De Benedictis

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Abstract

A second case of a novel rabies variant described once in a capuchin monkey from Mato Grosso, Brazil, was discovered in a rabid wild kinkajou from the same region, indicating a public health risk following exposure to either of the two animals.

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