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Silvana Regina Favoretto, Luzia Fatima Alves Martorelli, Mauro Rosa Elkhoury, Augusto M. Zargo, Edison Luiz Durigon, Rabies Virus Detection and Phylogenetic Studies in Samples from an Exhumed Human, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 41, Issue 3, 1 August 2005, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.1086/431766
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SIR—The existence of rabid bats or other wild animals in urban areas represents a risk for rabies infection for humans and domestic animals [1]. In addition, isolation of rabies viruses reveals that it is common and present in the bat population. Since 1998, a total of 129 cases of human rabies have been reported in Brazil, 9.3% of which were caused by rabies virus strains associated with bats, with an increase in the rate of 17.6% in the past year.
In January 2003, a 40-year-old female farm laborer was buried in a German community nearby the Laranja da Terra municipality in Espirito Santo State, Brazil. The woman's obituary noted that she had a neurological illness as causas mortis. Recently, there have been numerous reports of vampire bats that had bitten cattle in this area; however, this region was previously considered to have unknown rabies status. The body was exhumed 8 days after burial, and a sample obtained from the woman was sent to the laboratory for diagnosis, and pattern tests were performed.
