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Paralytic rabies: An acute flaccid myelitis after inadequate post exposure prophylaxis
Ashok Kumar Pannu1, Raichur Vijay Kumar2, Deeksha Vijaykumar2
1Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Abstract:
Rabies has two distinct clinical syndromes, encephalitic (or 'furious') and paralytic (or 'dumb'). The paralytic form presents as acute flaccid myelitis and is more common in patients who received post-exposure anti-rabies vaccination without rabies immunoglobulins. We have recently had the opportunity to manage a middle-aged man presenting as 'dumb' paralytic rabies.
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