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Rabies.

Thiravat Hemachudha1, Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, Jiraporn Laothamatas

  • 1Neurology Division, Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Rama 4 Road, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. th-cu@usa.net

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
|November 1, 2006
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Rabies remains fatal due to limited awareness and variable symptoms. Understanding virus transport and host responses is key to explaining disease progression and why current therapies are ineffective for rabies.

Area of Science:

  • Neurology
  • Virology
  • Immunology

Background:

  • Rabies is a fatal viral disease despite advances in understanding its pathogenesis.
  • Lack of awareness, political will, and failure to correlate clinical/diagnostic features contribute to preventable deaths.
  • Clinical presentation of rabies can be highly variable, even with the same virus genotype.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discuss virus transport and host response mechanisms in human rabies.
  • To explain the protean clinical manifestations and intact consciousness in rabies.
  • To summarize differential neuronal involvement in furious versus paralytic rabies.

Main Methods:

  • Review of virus transport mechanisms in the nervous system.
  • Analysis of host immune response in rabies pathogenesis.

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  • Correlation of clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging findings.
  • Evaluation of neuroprotective strategies and intensive care support.

    • Main Results:

    • Virus transport and host responses influence variable clinical presentations.
    • Specific neuronal targets (anterior horn cells vs. peripheral nerves) differ between rabies forms.
    • Host defense escape mechanisms render rabies inevitably fatal.
    • Coma-induction regimens are not beneficial for neuroprotection.

    Conclusions:

    • Fatal outcome in rabies is unavoidable due to viral escape mechanisms.
    • Early innate and adaptive immunity, alongside intensive care, are crucial for rare patient survival.
    • Further research into host-virus interactions is needed for potential therapeutic strategies.