TY - JOUR AU - Mallewa, Macpherson AU - Fooks, Anthony R. AU - Banda, Daniel AU - Chikungwa, Patrick AU - Mankhambo, Limangeni AU - Molyneux, Elizabeth AU - Molyneux, Malcolm E. AU - Solomon, Tom T1 - Rabies Encephalitis in Malaria-Endemic Area, Malawi, Africa T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 136 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In a malaria-endemic area of Africa, rabies was an important cause of fatal central nervous system infection, responsible for 14 (10.5%) of 133 cases. Four patients had unusual clinical manifestations, and rabies was only diagnosed postmortem. Three (11.5%) of 26 fatal cases were originally attributed to cerebral malaria. KW - Rabies KW - central nervous system infection KW - Malaria KW - zoonosis KW - dispatch KW - Malawi DO - 10.3201/eid1301.060810 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/1/06-0810_article ER - End of Reference