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A female dog, inoculated with a rabies isolate from the saliva of an apparently healthy Ethiopian dog, developed rabies but later recovered without supportive treatment. Rabies virus was isolated from the saliva collected 42, 169 and 305 days after recovery. Sixteen months after it recovered, the dog suddenly died after giving birth to two stillborn puppies. At necropsy, viral antigen could be detected in the tonsils and the brain tissue, but viable virus was isolated from the Palatine tonsils only.
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Fekadu, M., Shaddock, J.H., Chandler, F.W. et al. Rabies virus in the tonsils of a carrier dog. Archives of Virology 78, 37–47 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01310857
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