Evaluating adherence to government recommendations for post-exposure rabies vaccine among animal-bite victims: A hospital-based study in Bangladesh. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Rabies is a fatal but preventable zoonotic disease with an approximately 100% case fatality rate. The most common way to contract rabies is through the bite of a rabid animal.
Sadia Tamanna +6 more
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Forecasting delay times in post-exposure prophylaxis to human animal bite injuries in Central Iran: A decision tree analysis [PDF]
Veterinary World, 2019 Background and Aim: Data mining in medical sciences provides countless opportunities for demonstrating hidden patterns of a data set. These patterns can help general physicians and health workers in preventing diseases. This study aimed to forecast delay
Amir Hamta +3 more
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Rabies vaccine initiation and adherence among animal-bite patients in Haiti, 2015. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 BACKGROUND:Approximately 59,000 people die from rabies worldwide annually. Haiti is one of the last remaining countries in the Western Hemisphere with endemic canine rabies.
Cuc H Tran +7 more
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The wound severity of animal bite victims visiting rabies prevention clinics and the influencing factors in Central China: a cross-sectional investigation [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Animal bites are a major public health problem. The more serious the bite wound is, the higher the risk of developing rabies is. This study aimed to investigate the severity of wounds among animal bite victims and identify the influencing ...
Dandan Li +7 more
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Epidemiology and surveillance of human animal-bite injuries and rabies post-exposure prophylaxis, in selected counties in Kenya, 2011–2016 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Human animal-bite injuries are a serious public health problem due to associated risk for rabies virus exposure. Animal-bite injuries especially dog bites are useful indicators for assessing the risk of rabies virus transmission and need for ...
Jeremiah Ngurimu Ngugi +3 more
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Epidemiology of animal bite in Iran during a 20-year period (1993–2013): a meta-analysis [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Health, 2019 Background Rabies is a fatal disease that still kills 2–6 people a year in Iran. A meta-analysis was conducted in order to generate accurate data on animal bite exposure, and to estimate the incidence of animal bite across the country.
Maliheh Abedi +3 more
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Epidemiological study on animal bite cases referred to Haji Daii health Center in Kermanshah province, Iran during 2013–2017 [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Over thousands of animal bite cases are reported annually worldwide and in Iran placing a large financial burden on the health and economy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology of animal bite cases in Kermanshah, Iran through
Maryam Janatolmakan +5 more
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IJCM_413A: A cross sectional study to find out status of post exposure prophylaxis among animal bite cases in Raipur city Chhattisgarh. [PDF]
Indian Journal of Community MedicineBackground: Rabies is a viral zoonosis that occurs in more than 100 countries and territories Although a number of carnivores and bat species serve as natural reservoirs, rabies in dogs is the source of 99% human infections and poses a potential threat ...
Ikshit Singh +2 more
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Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 BACKGROUND: Animal and human bite injuries are a relevant health problem worldwide. With the increasing number of pets, bite injuries are becoming more frequent.
Simone Ehrhard +7 more
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The movement of a forager: Strategies for the efficient use of resources [PDF]
, 2016 We study a simple model of a foraging animal that modifies the substrate on which it moves. This substrate provides its only resource, and the forager manage it by taking a limited portion at each visited site.
Abramson, Guillermo +2 more
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