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3. Introduction :-
Rabies is acute viral encephalitis of all warm-blooded animals characterized
by altered behaviour, aggressiveness, progressive paralysis and in most
species by death.
It is an important disease of man and animals, which is usually transmitted
through the bite of rabies animals to other animals or human result in rapid fatal
encephalomyelitis after a somewhat lengthy incubation period.
The disease in man is called hydrophobia because the patient exhibits fear of
water, being incapable of drinking though subject to intolerable thirst.
Rabies in animals is not called hydrophobia because they do not have this
peculiar feature.
Fox, wolf, coyotes and jackal are extremely susceptible. Guinea pig, Hamster,
Bat, Mongoose, mice, rabbit, skunk and cattle are highly susceptible. Dog,
sheep, goat, horse and human are moderately susceptible. Poultry and
4. At the present time rabies occurs in most parts of the world except in Japan, UK,
New Zealand, Antarctica, Australia, Hawaii islands and Switzerland. In India the
incidence is very high.
Rabies virus belongs to the Rhabdo virus group, one of the RNA helical
enveloped virus group. It appears as filamentous, bell shaped or bullet shaped and
approximately 60-175 nm in size. The virion is rounded at one end and flat or
truncated at the other.
It is surrounded by a fringe of short pointed projections. Rabies virus can
agglutinate RBCs of day old chicks and goose at 0-40C and pH 6.2.The virus is
deficient in neuraminidase activity.
The nucleic acid consists of single stranded RNA. It is found in nerve tissue,
saliva, salivary glands, pancreas, less often in urine and lymph and rarely in blood,
milk and other body fluids of infected animals.
It is readily inactivated by sunlight, drying in air, 40-70% alcohol, quaternary
ammonium compounds, tincture-iodine, carbolic acid and any lipid solvents.
5. The virus is very resistant to autolysis and putrefaction. The virus will persist for
months in infected nervous tissue in 50% glycerol. The virus survives at 40C for
weeks. It can be preserved at –700C or by lyophilization.
Rabies virus grows very well in human diploid cell line WI-38 and MRC-5,
BHK21, Vero and Chicken embryo fibroblast.
Cytopathic effects are not apparent. In continuous lines of human diploid cells
and BHK21 infected with rabies, almost 100% of the cells are infected and there
is a marked CPE. Five or six day’s old embryonated hen’s eggs are preferred for
growth of virus by yolk sac route.
The virus also grows in CAM route and produce miliary pock lesions. The
strains that have been adapted in egg are Flurry strain, Keller strain. Low egg
passage (LEP) strains can be obtained by 40 to 50 passages. High egg passage
(HEP) strains can be obtained by 180 passages. Duck eggs are commonly used
for preparation of vaccine.
6. Rabies can be cultivated in a wide range of laboratory animals such as
hamsters, mice, guinea pig and rabbits in the order of decreasing susceptibility
by intracerebral or intramuscular routes.
In usual circumstances the only risk of rabies virus transmission is by the bite
or scratch of a rabid animal, although in bat caves, where the amount of virus
may be very high and the extremely high humidity may stabilize the virus
transmitted by aerosol infection.
In rare circumstances the virus can pass through the intact mucous
membrane
The amount of virus required and to initiate infection varies considerably and
depends upon the susceptibility of the patients.
Susceptible wild living animals particularly foxes, wolf, jackals constitute the
most important residual focus of rabies infection the most prevalent and most
difficult to control. Because they carry 106 infectious units of virus/ml of saliva.
7. Domestic dog is still the most important source of infection. Although virus
titers in the saliva of confirmed case of rabies in dog varies widely.
The saliva is believed to be infective in only 50-60% of the rabid dogs at the
time of bite and the presence of virus is greatly evident in a few days before
death.
The factors, which influence the course of infection, include the virulence,
invasiveness and concentration of inoculated virus, the amount of nervous
tissue near the site of wound, the degree of trauma and the type of animal
inflicting the bite.
Blood licking bats in chiroptera family constitute an important reservoir in
central and South Africa and they frequently infect cattle, man by biting at
nights.
In a report from Ethiopia in 1964, the isolation of true rabies virus was
obtained from the saliva of dog, which remains clinically healthy 4 years after
the sample had been taken.
8. CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
The incubation period in natural outbreak of dog rabies averages from 3-8
weeks. But it may be as short as 10 days to as long as one year.
The clinical features divided into three phases.
Prodromal form : During the prodromal period, which lasts 1-3 days,
animals show only vague CNS signs, which intensify rapidly. Dog has a
change in the temperament aimless snapping and barking at imaginary
objects.
Furious form : By about 3rd day after the onset of illness the dog
enters the furious stage which lasts for 3-7 days. During this stage dog
becomes irritable, restless, nervous, deprived appetite, aggressive, and
often dangerous as it loses all fear of humans and bites at anything that
gains its attention. There is usually exaggerated response to light and
sound.
9. Dog exhibit characteristic change in its barking and may howl in an
unusual tone due to the paralysis of laryngeal muscle. Salivation
and frothing at the mouth becomes progressively more profound.
Terminally, there are often convulsive seizures, coma and
respiratory arrest, with death occurring 2 to 14 days after the onset
of clinical signs. If it does not die it passes into paralytic stage.
Dumb or paralytic form : In cases when the furious phase is
extremely short or absent the animal rapidly enters the paralytic or
dumb stage; where the dog is rarely irritable and seldom bites.
Paralysis of the throat and masseter muscles, dropping of the
lower jaw or lower jaw paralysis is the clinical signs common in
dogs. In dumb form animals are not vicious and rarely attempt to
bite. The paralysis progresses rapidly to all parts of the body, and
coma and death follow in a few hours.
10. Note : Veterinarians/ Owners frequently examine the mouth of dogs and
livestock searching for foreign body or administer medication with their bare
hands, thereby exposing themselves to rabies.
In cats the clinical signs are similar to those of dogs but lost for 2-4 days
before death occurs.
11. Cattle
• Among farm animals, cattle are most commonly affected. In the paralytic form,
knuckling of the hind fetlocks, sagging and swaying of the hindquarters while
walking, often deviation or flaccidity of the tail to one side, are common signs.
• Decreased sensation over the hindquarters is one of the best criterions for the
detection of rabies.
• There is drooling of saliva, tenesmus, pumping of anus and followed by
recumbency seen in later stages.
• In furious rabies, the animal alert, hypersensitive, violently attack, loud and coarse
bellowing, sexual excitement and collapses suddenly.
• Cattle are very restless, excited and aggressive with salivation, abdominal pain,
diarrhoea and rectal straining. Paralysis of hind quarters occurs followed by death
in 3-6 days after the first signs of illness. • In sheep and goat the symptoms are
similar to cattle.
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13. Sheep
• Clinically the picture is similar to cattle. Sexual excitement, violent attack,
vigorous wool pulling, sudden falling and salivation are characteristic.
• Goats are commonly aggressive, and continuous bleating is common.
Horse
• Muzzle tremors and pharyngeal paresis are common.
• In addition to these abnormal postures, frequent whinnying, kicking, biting,
colic, sudden onset of lameness in one limb followed by recumbency, high
stepping gait, blindness, recumbency, paddling, convulsions and terminally
paralysis.
14. SAMPLE TO BE COLLECTED
Live animals : Saliva, corneal/ Conjunctival smear.
Dead animals
The whole carcass or the severed head of the animal suspected to
have died of rabies.
Alternatively, the brain may be removed carefully and two portions, one
in 50% glycerol saline and the other in Zenker’s fixative, sent for
biological test and microscopy, respectively.
The brain tissue selected should include portions of hippocampus,
cerebellum, cerebral cortex, and placed in 50% glycerol saline to
preserve the virus.
No refrigeration is required.
Glycerinated tissues are generally unsuitable for immunofluorescence
staining for which smears fixed in acetone free methyl alcohol and dried
at room temperature without blotting should be sent.
15. DEMONSTRATION OF NEGRIBODIES
Negribodies are abundantly present in pyramidal cells of ammon’s horn and
purkinje cells of cerebellum.
They can be demonstrated in impression smears either by Seller’s method
(for unfixed sections) or Mann’s method (fixed sections).
Seller’s method has the advantage that fixation and staining is done
simultaneously.
Negribodies are intracytoplasmic, magenta red or cherry red spherical or
oval bodies with characteristic basophilic inner granules.
They are varying in size from 3-27µ. They are inclusions of aggregates of
nucleocapsids and they are specific to rabies infection.
Note: Animal should not be killed for the demonstration of negri bodies.
They can be demonstrated in only 80-85% cases.
It should be differentiated from intranuclear inclusions produced by
Infectious Canine Hepatitis and Canine Distemper.
16. ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF VIRUS
Confirmatory diagnosis must be obtained by animal inoculation or other means.
Animal inoculation: For isolation of virus, the brain or other tissue specimens are
prepared as 10% suspension.
Suckling mice or hamsters of 3-6 weeks age are generally used for isolation and
identification.
Route of inoculation is intracerebral. Infected mice almost always develop clinical
symptoms within 17 days of inoculation.
The clinical signs to look far in mice are ruffled fur, arching of back, flaccid
paralysis of legs.
To establish a positive diagnosis the mouse brain are removed and examined
microscopically for negribodies.
The confirmatory diagnosis can be obtained by serum neutralization test in mice
or by lmmunofluorescence.
Rabies virus can be cultured in human diploid cells, neuroblastoma and BHK21. A
5 or 6 day old embryonated hen’s eggs are preferred for growth of virus by yolk sac
17. DEMONSTRATION OF VIRUS ANTIGEN
• Demonstration of viral antigen in ammon’s horn, cerebellum, corneal/conjunctival
impression smear, skin biopsy ( from facial area ) and in sub maxillary salivary
glands by fluorescent antibody technique (FAT) is the most widely used,
confirmatory test for the diagnosis of rabies since it provides rapid reliable and
highly specific means of detecting the viral antigen.
• This test is recommended by both WHO and OIE.
• By serology
Immunoperoxidase test
ELISA
Rapid fluorescence focus inhibition test (RFFIT)
Virus neutralization test
Rapid rabies enzyme immuno diagnosis test (RREID) based on the
use of antinucleocapsid lgG are highly useful.
RT-PCR amplification technique is 1000 times more sensitive than
other tests.
18. TREATMENT
• There is no specific treatment for rabies.
• Dogs usually die after showing clinical signs.
• The site of bite should be washed with water or soap.
• Alkali prevents multiplication of virus. Sodium bicarbonate or caustic soda may be
used.
• Then the wound is treated with 2% quaternary ammonium compound or tincture
iodine or 4070% alcohol.
• Wound may also be cauterized with carbolic acid or nitric acid.
• Antirabies serum may be applied topically or infiltrated around the wound.
• Treatment with antirabies serum is also effective.
• Antirabies serum is prepared by hyperimmunisation of horses.
• It should be given as early as possible after exposure and in any case within five
days, after which it may not be beneficial.
• The dose recommended is 40 I.U. per kg body weight.
19. PROPHYLAXIS
Nervous tissue vaccine
• This is a flurry type vaccine. These are prepared from brain tissues of sheep
inactivated through 1% phenol. These are made as 5% and 20% suspension.
Pasteur’s cord vaccine: this vaccine is prepared by drying over
caustic potash for varying period’s pieces of infected rabbit spinal
cord.
Semple vaccine : This vaccine was developed by Semple (1911) at
the Central Research Institute, Kasauli. It is a 5% or 20% suspension
of sheep brain infected with fixed virus and inactivated with phenol at
370C.
Beta Propinolactone vaccine : This is a modification of Semple
vaccine in which BPL is used as the inactivating agent instead of
phenol.
UV treated vaccines (Webster) : Inactivated vaccines prepared
from brain of infected animals, which were exposed to UV rays.
20. Non - nervous tissue vaccine
• Duck egg vaccin : This is fixed virus adapted for growth in duck eggs and
inactivated with BPL. This has been discontinued because of its poor
immunogenicity.
• Live attenuated chick embryo vaccine: Two types of vaccines are
available.
Avianized or chick embryo vaccine
This is made through passaging the virus in chicken embryo.
Low egg passage (LEP) (40 to 50 passages) is completely safe for
dogs.
Avianized live virus vaccine is a single dose vaccine. Age of first
vaccination is 3 months, dose 3 ml i/m. Immunity 3 years. Repeat
after 3 years.
High Egg Passage (HEP) vaccine at 180 passage level used for
21. Tissue culture vaccine
The first cell culture vaccine was the human diploid cell strain (HDCS)
vaccine developed by Koprowsky, Wiktor and Plotkin.
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It is a purified and concentrated preparation of fixed rabies virus (Pitman –
Moore Strain) grown on human diploid cells (WI 38 or MRC 5) and
inactivated with betapropinolactone. It is highly antigenic and free from side
effects.
Its only disadvantage is high cost. Nowadays more economical, primary
chicken embryo and vero cell culture adapted, vaccines are available.
The avianized live virus vaccine is a single dose vaccine. Age of first
vaccination is 3 months, dose 3 ml i/m. Immunity 3 years. Repeat after 3
years. In tissue culture vaccine, age of first vaccination is 3 months.
Revaccination should be done after 6 months and then at yearly intervals.
Dose 5 ml s/c in the neck or flank region.
22. Subunit vaccine
The glycoprotein subunit on the virus surface, which is the protective
antigen has been cloned and recombinant vaccines produced. They are
still in the experimental stage.
Pre exposure vaccination- Pre exposure vaccination schedule for dogs
starts at 12th week age – first dose, 28 days later – second dose, one year
later- third dose, three years later- fourth dose.
Post exposure immunization: 0, 3, 7, 28, 60, 90 days after exposure.
23. Control (as per the WHO recommendations)
• Notification of suspected cases, and destruction of dogs with clinical
signs and dogs bitten by a suspected rabid animal.
• Compulsory immunization of dogs
• Sterilization and vaccination of stray dogs by using baits
• Epidemiological Surveillance
• Education of Public • Development of cost effective vaccine
24. CONTROL (AS PER THE WHO
RECOMMENDATIONS)
• Notification of suspected cases, and destruction of dogs with clinical
signs and dogs bitten by a suspected rabid animal.
• Compulsory immunization of dogs
• Sterilization and vaccination of stray dogs by using baits
• Epidemiological Surveillance
• Education of Public
• Development of cost effective vaccine