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195 Rabies and Other Rhabdovirus Infections
Alan C. Jackson

	Figure 195-1  Distribution of the major rabies virus variants among wild terrestrial reservoirs in the United States and Puerto Rico, 2008. (From JD Blanton et al: J Am Vet Med Assoc 235:676, 2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
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	Figure 195-2  Schematic representation of the pathogenetic events following peripheral inoculation of rabies virus. (Adapted from Jackson AC: Human disease, in Rabies, AC Jackson, WH Wunner (eds), San Diego, Academic Press, 2002, pp 219–244; with permission.)
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	Figure 195-3  Three large Negri bodies in the cytoplasm of a cerebellar Purkinje cell from an 8-year-old boy who died of rabies after being bitten by a rabid dog in Mexico. (From AC Jackson, E Lopez-Corella: N Engl J Med 335:568, 1996. © Massachusetts Medical Society.)
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	Figure 195-4  Hydrophobic spasm of inspiratory muscles associated with terror in a patient with encephalitic (furious) rabies who is attempting to swallow water. (Copyright DA Warrell, Oxford, UK; with permission.)
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	Figure 195-5  Algorithm for rabies postexposure prophylaxis. RIG, rabies immune globulin. [From L Corey, in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 15th ed. E Braunwald et al (eds): New York, McGraw-Hill, 2001; adapted with permission.]
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