TY - JOUR AU - Favi, Myriam AU - de Mattos, Cecilia C. AU - Yung, Verónica AU - Chala, Evelyn AU - López, Luis R. AU - de Mattos, Carlos A. T1 - First Case of Human Rabies in Chile Caused by an Insectivorous Bat Virus Variant T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2002 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 79 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The first human rabies case in Chile since 1972 occurred in March 1996 in a patient without history of known exposure. Antigenic and genetic characterization of the rabies isolate indicated that its reservoir was the insectivorous bat Tadarida brasiliensis. This is the first human rabies case caused by an insectivorous bat rabies virus variant reported in Latin America. KW - rabies KW - Chile KW - bats KW - human KW - Latin America KW - Tadarida DO - 10.3201/eid0801.010108 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/1/01-0108_article ER - End of Reference