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How to check if a person is currently suffering from Rabies or not if that person was bitten by a street dog few months back and he had not taken any vaccination at that time? Is there a particular test to check the same? And if yes, please let me know the test name. And also tell if the test report comes normal, it's well n good but if the report states that the person is currently suffering from Rabies then how to cure it & save life? Please suggest.
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Test for rabies antibody polymerase chain reaction 1 saliva is tested for rabies virus isolation or reverse transcriptase folowed by polymerase chain reaction test (rt-pcr) 2. Spinal fluid for rabies antibody 3. Serum of rabies antibody 4. Skin biopsies of hair follicles at the nape of neck for rabis antigen in cutaneous nerve at the base of hair follicles.
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Symptoms may arise in 2 weeks and neeed to watch the dog if dog is fine no issues.
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