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To the Editor: Willoughby et al. (June 16 issue)¹ reported success in treating a patient with rabies related to a bite from a bat. The approach taken by these clinicians was devised on the basis of evidence that functional derangements and apoptosis are the primary causes of death from rabies and that treatment with immune globulin and vaccine might be counterproductive.^2,3 This case is unique in that the rabies virus was not detected in several procedures, there were normal results from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, and the presence of rabies-neutralizing antibodies in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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