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By means of two cases of postvaccinal encephalomyelitis following antirabies vaccination has been demonstrated the meaning of these complications. In one of these cases has been presumed a simultaneous illness of quiet rabies. The difficulty of an aetiological diagnostic by the morphological effigy of the encephalomyelitids has been referred. An improvement of the dispensaire-system and of the diagnostic of complications following antirabies vaccination is postulated.
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PMID:[Postvacccinal encephalomyelitis after protective antirabic innoculation, combined with polioencephalomyelitis (lyssa?)]. 0 Jul 2

Similarity of the syndromes of rabies and of encephalomyelitis resulting from rabies vaccination poses a problem in differential diagnosis that has had tragic consequences. That difficulty may also be largely responsible for the traditional belief that rabies is inexorably fatal, in that recovery from paralysis is interpreted as evidence that the disease was postvaccinal encephalomyelitis rather than rabies. Diagnosis is additionally complicated by presence of rabies antibodies in serum in both conditions. However, we have found that rabies antibodies elicited by vaccination do not pass the blood/brain barrier to enter the fluids of the CNS in EAE, the experimental counterpart of postvaccinal encephalomyelitis; whereas antibodies are present in high titer as a result of production in situ after recovery from rabies. Therefore a ratio of antibody concentrations of greater than 1:10 in CSF and serum indicates chronic rabies or recovery from that disease.
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PMID:Allergic encephalitis, rabies antibodies, and the blood/brain barrier. 3 89

In neutralization tests in animals close antigenic relationship between human virus of acute encephalomyelitis (AEM) and viruses (297 and 598 SG strains) isolated from wild rodents in Czechoslovakia was first established. At the same time, poor antigenic relationship of human AEM virus to viruses isolated in Africa from bats (Lagos bat) and from shrews (YbAn 27377) was demonstrated. Certain differences in the antigenic properties of viruses isolated in Africa and in Czechoslovakia were found. These studies indicate the existence of many varieties in the rabies virus group. Ferther accumulation of data concerning different viruses of the rabies group is necessary as they may be helpful for elucidation of the pathology of certain neuroinfections due to viruses of this group as well as for creation of the necessary collection of the investigated strains for preparation of rabies vaccines.
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PMID:[Study of the antigenic relationship of different strains of the rabies group viruses]. 5 97

The blast transformation test with lymphocytes of mice sensitized with commercial rabies vaccine, and the direct and indirect immunofluorescence tests with hyperimmune serum to human acute encephalomyelitis virus and rabies immunoglobulins demonstrated antigenic relationships of rabies, Lagos Bat, Mokola, human acute encephalomyelitis and rabieslike virus isolated from rodents in Central Europe. At the same time, the time of appearance and the degree of intensity of specific blast transformation reaction as well as its duration indicate some differences in the antigenic structure of the Lissaviruses under study.
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PMID:[Antigenic relations of the rabies group viruses studied in the blast transformation and immunofluorescence tests]. 38 Jan 63

Comparison of pathomorphological lesions in the brains of white mice inoculated with viruses isolated in Africa from shrews, in America from bats, in Czechoslovakia from rodents (6 strains) and classified into the rabies group, with those observed in the same animal species infected with street rabies virus and virus of human acute encephalomyelitis (HAE) established the peculiar features of the reactive processes distinguishing these infections from each other. In contrast to the reactions after inoculation with street rabies virus and HAE, 24 hours after inoculation of white mice with Lagos bat, Ib An 27 377, 297 BF, 548 BF, 808 BF, 482 SG, 598 SG, and 638 SG strains hemorrhagic foci were observed; within 48 hours multiple perivascular cuffs were formed in the brain, and degeneration of the Ammon horn down to its disappearance and formation of multiple voids in the brain tissue were observed. Cytoplasmic inclusions in neurons of the cerebrum cortex and Ammon horn in the form of small paired formations with a pinpoint basophilic granule inside could be detected 24 hours postinfection. Later in the disease, the number of inclusions found diminished sharply.
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PMID:[Pathomorphological characteristics of the experimental infection in animals infected with viruses of the rabies antigenic group]. 41 43

To test the hypothesis that hibernating colonial bats serve as an overwintering reservoir host of eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE) and certain other arthropod-borne viruses in southern New England, 1128 bats of 4 species were collected from 1966 through 1976. Blood and tissue samples and ectoparasites from these bats were tested in suckling mice, wet chicks, and/or chick-embryo tissue cultures for virus. Rabies, the only virus isolated, was recovered from the brain, salivary glands, and brown fat of an apparently healthy adult male Myotis keenii found hibernating in western Massachusetts.
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PMID:Virologic and serologic survey for eastern equine encephalomyelitis and certain other viruses in colonial bats of New England. 50 51

The encephalitogenic property of rabies vaccines of brain tissue origin (Hempt vaccine produced in different institutes, Semple vaccine, International Standard of Rabies Vaccine) was studied in animal experiments. Guinea pigs inoculated with the vaccines in complete Freund adjuvant were observed for clinical signs and histopathological changes characteristic of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis. Normal sheep brain suspension was used as control. The minimal encephalitogenic dose of the Hempt vaccine was found about 3,500 times more than that of the control material. Hempt vaccine proved much less reactogenic than the International Standard of Rabies Vaccine and the Semple vaccine. Subsequent lots of Hempt vaccine were slightly different in respect of their encephalitogenic activity.
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PMID:The encephalitogenicity of the Hempt vaccine. 83 41

After an incubation period of one to two months rabies presents with non-specific prodromal symptoms and often with paraesthesiae of the bitten area. As in canine rabies there are furious and dumb forms of the disease. In man, furious rabies is characterised by hydrophobia: terror and excitation with spasms of inspiratory muscles, larynx and pharynx precipitated by attempts to drink and by a variety of other stimuli. Hydrophobia may represent an exaggerated respiratory tract irritant reflex with associated arousal potentiated by the selective destruction of brain stem inhibitory systmes. Also typical of furious rabies are intermittent episodes of excitement, hallucinations and maniacal behaviour. Focal neurological abnormalities are surprisingly uncommon. Other signs include hypersalivation, tachycardia and hyperpyrexia. Paralysis and coma supervene after a few days: survival rarely exceeds seven days. Dumb or paralytic rabies is an ascending flaccid paralysis with sphincter involvement and sensory disturbances. Death from respiratory and bulbar paralysis occurs after a longer illness than furious rabies. In a minority of cases hydrophobia develops before the terminal coma. Complications include respiratory arrest, pneumonitis, cardiac arrhythmias and interstitial myocarditis, posterior pituitary disorders, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Differential diagnoses of furious rabies include hysterical pseudo hydrophobia, tetanus, other encephalitides, delirium tremens and various other intoxications. Paralytic rabies may have to be distinguished from postvaccinal encephalomyelitis, poliomyelitis and other causes of Landry-type ascending paralysis. Intensive care has produced some promising results: life-threatening complications can be prevented but there is some evidence that the severity of the encephalitis is the ultimate barrier to survival.
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PMID:The clinical picture of rabies in man. 98 12

A rapidly fatal encephalomyelitis, which was in most cases characterized by ascending paralysis, developed in seven children of the age of 3 to 10 years in a bushnegro village in the interior of Surinam. Rabies virus was recovered from the central nervous system of three autopsied children. Although the source of infection has not been detected, there is an indication that, at least in some cases, the disease has been transmitted by rat-bite rather than by vampire bats. During the same period a few cases of minor febrile illness occurred in the same community. Since virological and serological evidence of a wide-spread distribution of Coxsackie A virus type 4 was obtained, the latter illness may presumably be attributed to this virus.
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PMID:A local outbreak of paralytic rabies in Surinam children. 117 78

Primary dispersed and organotypic cultures were prepared from selected brain areas and spinal cords of rat (Sprague-Dawley) and mouse (SJL/OLA(F) Ness-Ziona) fetuses and neonates. Following fiber regeneration, synapse formation and myelination, cultures were infected with one of the following viruses: Rabies CVS-21 strain, Sindbis Alphavirus, West-Nile Flavivirus and Theiler Murine Encephalomyelitis virus. Light and electron microscopical studies showed clear differences in the target cells for virus infection; time of viral replication and in the intensity and specificity of the cytopathic effects induced by these viruses. Thus, Sindbis and Theiler viruses induced severe cytotoxicity and demyelination due to rapid viral replication in both neurons and all glial cell types. Rabies and West-Nile viruses, on the other hand, replicated mainly in neurons and at a much slower rate, causing only mild damage to the cells and the myelin sheath. A very specific alignment of West-Nile virions was observed along the interperiod lines of the myelin sheath in several myelinated axons. This peculiar arrangement of the virions, entrapped between the myelin lamellae may lead to a novel concept in the understanding of viral infection.
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PMID:Neuronal cell cultures as a model for assessing neurotoxicity induced by encephalitic viruses. 132 47


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