Persistent mental symptoms and rabies.

3) Which method was used to investigate rabies immunoglobulin in the cerebrospinal fluid? What were the patient’s other cerebrospinal fluid findings? For instance, was herpes simplex virus encephalitis investigated? This would be important to know because this is another possible explanation of the condition. 4) It is well known that rabies is almost always fatal, but this patient survived. Which factors might have resulted in the patient’s survival in the presence of severe persistent mental symptoms due to rabies encephalitis?