dc.contributor.author |
Mohale, Debrah Kgwana
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dc.contributor.author |
Ngoepe, Ernest
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dc.contributor.author |
Mparamoto, Munangatire
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dc.contributor.author |
Blumberg, Lucille
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dc.contributor.author |
Sabeta, Claude
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-01-10T11:48:14Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-01-10T11:48:14Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2023-03-24 |
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dc.description |
DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT : The nucleotide sequence data generated in this study can be found on Genbank. |
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dc.description.abstract |
In South Africa, rabies cycles are sustained by both domestic and wildlife host species.
Despite the fact that the majority of human rabies cases are associated with dog bite exposures,
wildlife species can potentially transmit rabies virus (RABV) infection to humans. In July 2021,
a honey badger (Mellivora capensis) from the Kromdraai area (Gauteng Province) bit a dog on a
small farm. The following day the same honey badger attacked three adults in the area, with one
of the victims requiring hospitalization for management of her injuries. The honey badger was
subsequently shot and the carcass submitted to the Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort
Veterinary Research (ARC-OVR) for RABV diagnosis. A positive rabies diagnosis was confirmed and
phylogenetic analysis of the amplified glycoprotein gene of the rabies virus demonstrated the virus
to be of dog origin. |
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dc.description.department |
Veterinary Tropical Diseases |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2023 |
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dc.description.sdg |
SDG-03:Good heatlh and well-being |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
The Rabies Diagnostic Project (P10000045) of the ARC-OVR and was partly funded by European Virus Archive global (EVAg), a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. |
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dc.description.uri |
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/tropicalmed |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Mohale, D.K.; Ngoepe, E.; Mparamoto, M.; Blumberg, L.; Sabeta,
C.T. A Case Report on a Human Bite Contact with a Rabid Honey Badger
Mellivora capensis (Kromdraai Area, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa).
Trop. Med. Infect. Dis. 2023, 8, 186. https://DOI.org/10.3390/tropicalmed8040186. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2414-6366 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.3390/tropicalmed8040186 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/93900 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
MDPI |
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dc.rights |
© 2023 by the authors.
Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
This article is an open access article
distributed under the terms and
conditions of the Creative Commons
Attribution (CC BY) license. |
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dc.subject |
Rabies |
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dc.subject |
Lyssavirus |
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dc.subject |
Wildlife |
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dc.subject |
Human |
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dc.subject |
Honey badger (Mellivora capensis) |
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dc.subject |
Rabies lyssavirus (RABV) |
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dc.subject |
SDG-03: Good health and well-being |
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dc.title |
A case report on a human bite contact with a rabid honey badger Mellivora capensis (Kromdraai Area, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) |
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dc.type |
Article |
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