rabies

Examples of rabies in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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.

• Cell Inclusions and Storage Granules

  • This electron micrograph shows the rabies virus, as well as Negri bodies, or cellular inclusions.

• Intro and major themes

  • 1. 1885 first rabies vaccine to human to a kid who had been bitten by a rabid dog.

• 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.

• Tissue Tropism in Animal Viruses

• Modern Microbiology

  • Pasteur also designed methods for food preservation (pasteurization) and vaccines against several diseases such as anthrax, fowl cholera, and rabies.

• 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.

• Viral Genomes in Nature

  • Other viruses, such as rabies virus, can infect different species of mammals and are said to have a broad range.

• Disease Reservoirs and Epidemics