2012
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0689
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Evidence of Rabies Virus Exposure among Humans in the Peruvian Amazon

Abstract: In May of 2010, two communities (Truenococha and Santa Marta) reported to be at risk of vampire bat depredation were surveyed in the Province Datem del Marañón in the Loreto Department of Perú. Risk factors for bat exposure included age less than or equal to 25 years and owning animals that had been bitten by bats. Rabies virus neutralizing antibodies (rVNAs) were detected in 11% (7 of 63) of human sera tested. Rabies virus ribonucleoprotein (RNP) immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies were detected in the sera of … Show more

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“…Four bears in the study had detectable antibodies to rabies virus, two of which had high titers. Until recently, exposure to rabies virus was considered inevitably fatal, but evidence is mounting in both animals and humans that survival after exposure to rabies is possible (Deem et al 2004;Jackson et al 2008;Jorge et al 2010;Gilbert et al 2012), and some animals that are exposed mount an immune response but do not develop signs of rabies. A black bear with neurologic signs and abnormal behavior was diagnosed with rabies in 2007 in Garrett County, but cases of rabies are considered rare in free-ranging bears, with only three other reported cases in bears between 1992 and 2011 in the US, all in black bears in the eastern US (Krebs et al 2000(Krebs et al , 2005Blanton et al 2008).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Four bears in the study had detectable antibodies to rabies virus, two of which had high titers. Until recently, exposure to rabies virus was considered inevitably fatal, but evidence is mounting in both animals and humans that survival after exposure to rabies is possible (Deem et al 2004;Jackson et al 2008;Jorge et al 2010;Gilbert et al 2012), and some animals that are exposed mount an immune response but do not develop signs of rabies. A black bear with neurologic signs and abnormal behavior was diagnosed with rabies in 2007 in Garrett County, but cases of rabies are considered rare in free-ranging bears, with only three other reported cases in bears between 1992 and 2011 in the US, all in black bears in the eastern US (Krebs et al 2000(Krebs et al , 2005Blanton et al 2008).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…En el Perú, los brotes de rabia silvestre han sido documentados en poblaciones humanas residentes de la selva, la mayoría de casos estuvieron asociados con el murciélago hematófago común (Desmodus rotundus) (3,(5)(6)(7) , también existe evidencia de circulación del virus en murciélagos no hematófagos como Tadarida brasiliensis y Lasiurus cinereus lo cual sugiere trasmisión interespecie (8) .…”
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“…En el periodo 2010-2012, el 41,4% de casos de rabia humana en Latinoamérica y el Caribe procedieron del Perú. En el 2012, en la región de las Américas, se registraron 24 casos de rabia humana, once de los cuales correspondieron a rabia transmitida por murciélagos (diez procedentes de Perú y uno de Brasil) (2)(3)(4) .En el Perú, los brotes de rabia silvestre han sido documentados en poblaciones humanas residentes de la selva, la mayoría de casos estuvieron asociados con el murciélago hematófago común (Desmodus rotundus) (3,(5)(6)(7) , también existe evidencia de circulación del virus en murciélagos no hematófagos como Tadarida brasiliensis y Lasiurus cinereus lo cual sugiere trasmisión interespecie (8) .El Potos flavus, conocido comúnmente como "chosna" (Figura 1), es un mamífero arbóreo y frugívoro que ocupa los bosques tropicales desde México hasta …”
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