Charles E. Rupprecht

TL;DR: Using a data set of hundreds of rabies viruses sampled from 23 North American bat species, a general framework is presented to quantify per capita rates of cross-species transmission and reconstruct historical patterns of viral establishment in new host species using molecular sequence data, which demonstrate diminishing frequencies of both cross- species transmission and host shifts with increasing phylogenetic distance between bat species.

TL;DR: Rabies is inevitably fatal and presents a horrifying clinical picture, particularly the paralytic form, which closely resembles Guillain-Barre syndrome, or when a patient is comatose and cardinal signs may be lacking.

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TL;DR: The prevalence, unprecedented viral biodiversity, phylogenetic divergence, and worldwide distribution of the bat-derived viruses suggest that bats are a major and ancient natural reservoir for both hepaciviruses and pegivirus and provide insights into the evolutionary history of hepatitis C virus and the human GB viruses.

TL;DR: The plant-derived human anti-rabies mAb (mAbP) was as efficient as HRIG for post-exposure prophylaxis against rabies virus in hamsters, indicating that differences in N-glycosylation do not affect the efficacy of the antibody in this model.