While playing in the forest, a 13-year-old boy was bitten in the lower left leg by a raccoon. What finding would suggest a serious neurologic disease could result from the bite?

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Intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies called Negri bodies are found in nerve cells infected by the rabies virus, which can cause a serious neurological infection unless appropriately treated. (The patient should have been immediately treated prophylactically for rabies!)

While Playing in the Forest, a 13-Year-Old Boy Was Bitten