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Non-rabies Lyssavirus human encephalitis from fruit bats: Australian bat Lyssavirus (pteropid Lyssavirus) infection
H Samaratunga1, J W Searle, N Hudson
1Department of Anatomical Pathology, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia.
Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
|October 17, 1998
Abstract:
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.