Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination

Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination

Only few reports of failure of intradermal postexposure prophylaxis for rabies following cat scratch exist in the published literature. We are reporting such a case in a 15-year-old girl. The child had category III cat scratch on her face. She presented with progressive paralysis, finally developing...

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Main Authors: Gowda, Vykuntaraju K., Basavaraja, G. V., Reddy, Hamsa, Ramaswamy, Premalatha
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166841/
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spelling pubmed-41668412014-09-23 Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination Gowda, Vykuntaraju K. Basavaraja, G. V. Reddy, Hamsa Ramaswamy, Premalatha Case Report Only few reports of failure of intradermal postexposure prophylaxis for rabies following cat scratch exist in the published literature. We are reporting such a case in a 15-year-old girl. The child had category III cat scratch on her face. She presented with progressive paralysis, finally developing quadriplegia and respiratory paralysis. Typical hydrophobia and aerophobia were absent. She received intra-dermal anti-rabies cell culture vaccine. She did not receive anti-rabies immunoglobulin. The girl succumbed on the 10th day of weakness. Diagnosis of rabies was confirmed by isolation of rabies virus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid and skin biopsy sample by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4166841/ /pubmed/25250074 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.139328 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Gowda, Vykuntaraju K.
Basavaraja, G. V.
Reddy, Hamsa
Ramaswamy, Premalatha
spellingShingle Gowda, Vykuntaraju K.
Basavaraja, G. V.
Reddy, Hamsa
Ramaswamy, Premalatha
Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
author_facet Gowda, Vykuntaraju K.
Basavaraja, G. V.
Reddy, Hamsa
Ramaswamy, Premalatha
author_sort Gowda, Vykuntaraju K.
title Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
title_short Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
title_full Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
title_fullStr Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
title_full_unstemmed Paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
title_sort paralytic rabies following cat scratch and intra-dermal anti-rabies vaccination
description Only few reports of failure of intradermal postexposure prophylaxis for rabies following cat scratch exist in the published literature. We are reporting such a case in a 15-year-old girl. The child had category III cat scratch on her face. She presented with progressive paralysis, finally developing quadriplegia and respiratory paralysis. Typical hydrophobia and aerophobia were absent. She received intra-dermal anti-rabies cell culture vaccine. She did not receive anti-rabies immunoglobulin. The girl succumbed on the 10th day of weakness. Diagnosis of rabies was confirmed by isolation of rabies virus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid and skin biopsy sample by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
publisher Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166841/
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