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Managing human bites

open access: yesJournal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2009
Human bites are frequently overlooked in making a diagnosis in the emergency room. They are particularly notorious due to the polymicrobial nature of human saliva inoculated in the wound and the risk they pose for transmission of infectious diseases ...
Patil Pradnya   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Expert Elicitation on Exposure to Tick Bites and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Risk in Occupational and Recreational Forest Activities [PDF]

open access: yesViruses
Background: Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus is transmitted to humans via tick bites and occasionally via the consumption of unpasteurized milk products. According to the literature, the most important driver of TBE emergence and increase in incidence
Claude Saegerman   +8 more
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Human and animal bites [PDF]

open access: yesCaspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2023
Humans and animal bites are a significant public health problem, with the majority of bites coming from dogs, cats and humans. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, 250,000 human bites, 400,000 cat bites, and 4.7 million
Mohammad Darvishi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal bites presenting to the emergency department: Spectrum, seasonal variation, and outcome

open access: yesJournal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, 2021
Context: Animal bites including insect, reptile, and mammalian bites are common presentations to the emergency department (ED). Although profile and outcome of individual bites are described in detail, the literature on comprehensive overall clinical ...
Kundavaram Paul Prabhakar Abhilash   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soft Tissue Abscess due to Eikenella corrodens after Human Bite [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2016
Eikenella corrodens is found in oral, gastrointestinal and genitourinary normal flora. Eikenella species have been shown to cause serious human infections such as head-neck infection, pulmonary infection, arthritis, endocarditis, intraabdominal infection,
Bilal Sula, Recep Tekin
doaj   +3 more sources

Quantifying individual variability in exposure risk to mosquito bites in the Cascades region, Burkina Faso

open access: yesMalaria Journal, 2021
Background The Cascades region, Burkina Faso, has a high malaria burden despite reported high insecticide-treated mosquito net (ITN) use. Human and vector activities outside the hours when indoor interventions offer direct protection from infectious ...
Federica Guglielmo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human Bites Over Nose: Management and Reconstruction

open access: yesArchives of Plastic Surgery, 2023
Background Human bite wounds in emergency department need evaluation in regard of reconstruction. These are due to occlusive bite injuries over face. Most commonly, human bites over face involve ear and nose, and may lead to avulsion injury. Defects over
Kuldeep Singh, Krittika Aggarwal
doaj   +1 more source

Describing the relationship between cat bites and human depression using data from an electronic health record. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Data mining approaches have been increasingly applied to the electronic health record and have led to the discovery of numerous clinical associations.
David A Hanauer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends and spatial distribution of animal bites and vaccination status among victims and the animal population, Uganda: A veterinary surveillance system analysis, 2013-2017.

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Rabies is a vaccine-preventable fatal zoonotic disease. Uganda, through the veterinary surveillance system at National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre (NADDEC), captures animal bites (a proxy for rabies) on a monthly basis from ...
Fred Monje   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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