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1: Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 1998 Aug;24(4):331-5.Click here to read Links

Non-rabies Lyssavirus human encephalitis from fruit bats: Australian bat Lyssavirus (pteropid Lyssavirus) infection.

Samaratunga H, Searle JW, Hudson N.

Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia.

A 39-year-old woman died of encephalitis a few weeks after being scratched by fruit bats. Autopsy disclosed meningoencephalomyelitis, and revealed neuronal intracytoplasmic inclusions which had similarities to Negri bodies of rabies. Laboratory investigations detected a Lyssavirus type previously identified only in fruit bats. This appears to be the first human case of encephalitis due to this Lyssavirus type.

PMID: 9775399 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]