Multiple choice

Which viral disease is characterised by the presence of negri bodies within brain neurons?

  1. Leukemia

  2. Herpes

  3. HIV

  4. Syphilis

  5. Rabies
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Explanation

Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm blooded animals. Negri bodies are eosinophilic sharply outlined pathognomonic inclusion bodies found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies especially in Ammon's horn of the hippocampus. It is also found in the cerebellar cortex of postmortem brain samples of rabies victims. They consist ribonuclear proteins produced by the virus.

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