Cardiac involvement in human rabies: case report

A case of human rabies with cardiac involvement and viral inclusion bodies in the heart is presented. The Negri bodies were found in the Schwann cells of the right epicardial atrium, with secondary mononuclear cells inflammation. In the myocardium, an interstitial edema, proliferation of Anitschkov...

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Main Authors: Carlos Floriano de Morais, Raimunda Violante Campos de Assis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1985-06-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651985000300006&lng=en&tlng=en