Rabies

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Lyssavirus rabies

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considerable information about this organism (where it can be found in nature, whether it is a virus, bacterium, protozoan, or fungus, and much more).

The virus that causes rabies is known as Lyssavirus rabies. Lyssavirus is a rod-shaped virus that is 180 nanometers in length and 75 nanometers in width. The virus is enclosed in a fatty membrane and contains a single strand of RNA.

Since they’re rod shaped, their infectious particles are approximately cylindrical in shape.

They are characterized by an extremely broad host spectrum ranging from plants to insects and mammals; human-infecting viruses more commonly have cubic symmetry and take shapes approximating regular polyhedra.

One end is rounded or conical and the other end is planar or concave. The lipoprotein envelope carries knob-like spikes composed of Glycoprotein G. Spikes do not cover the planar end of the virion (virus particle). Beneath the envelope is the membrane or matrix (M) protein layer which may be invaginated at the planar end. The core of the virion consists of helically arranged ribonucleoprotein.

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the symptoms of the disease – Symptoms for humans present themselves in two forms: ‘furious rabies', or ‘dumb rabies'. The former is called such because of the severe nature and range of the symptoms. The virus, upon reaching the CNS will present the person with headache, fever, irritability, restlessness and anxiety. Progression may occur on to muscle pains, excessive salivation, and vomiting. After a few days or up to a week the person may go through a stage of excitement, and be afflicted with painful muscle spasms which are sometimes set off by swallowing of saliva or water. Because of this the afflicted will drool and learn to fear water, which is why rabies in humans was sometimes called Hydrophobia. The patients are also extremely sensitive to air...