Examples of rabies in the following topics:
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Rabies
- Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals.
- Rabies literally means "madness" in Latin.
- Treatment with human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) and rabies vaccine is highly successful if administered before the onset of symptoms.
- Roughly 97% of human rabies cases result from dog bites .
- Close-up of a dog's face during late-stage "dumb" paralytic rabies.
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Negative-Strand RNA Viruses of Animals
- This virus family includes pathogens—the rabies virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, potato yellow dwarf virus, etc.
- Note the salivia dripping from the dog's mouth, a typical sign of a rabies infection.
- The infection of domestic animals with rabies was common until the 1960s; now most instances of rabies-infected animals are found in the wild.
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Cell Inclusions and Storage Granules
- This electron micrograph shows the rabies virus, as well as Negri bodies, or cellular inclusions.
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Intro and major themes
- 1. 1885 first rabies vaccine to human to a kid who had been bitten by a rabid dog.
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Antibiotic Discovery
- Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist best known for their experiments supporting the Germ theory of disease, and for his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies.
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Tissue Tropism in Animal Viruses
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Modern Microbiology
- Pasteur also designed methods for food preservation (pasteurization) and vaccines against several diseases such as anthrax, fowl cholera, and rabies.
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Virulent Bacteriophages and T4
- The term "neurovirulent" is used for viruses such as rabies and herpes simplex which can invade the nervous system and cause disease there.
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Viral Genomes in Nature
- Other viruses, such as rabies virus, can infect different species of mammals and are said to have a broad range.
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Disease Reservoirs and Epidemics