Rabies encephalitis is a fatal disease with few reports of survival being available. Even though rabies is definitively confirmed by virus isolation from biological samples or detection of the rabies antigen or antibodies, diagnosis is essentially clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain can be used as one of the modalities of investigation for the early detection of rabies and for distinguishing it from other encephalitis.
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