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Paediatric emergency department dog bite attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic: an audit at a tertiary children’s hospital

BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2021
Background Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic include strict public health measures, such as national lockdowns. During these measures, paediatric emergency department attendances have declined and the prevalence of presenting complaints has changed ...
Carri Westgarth, Robert M Christley, John S P Tulloch, Simon Minford, Vicky Pimblett, Matt Rotheram   +5 more
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Profile of dog bite injuries in patients presenting at Kimberley Hospital Complex’s emergency and gateway centres, 2015 to 2017

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2020
Background: Dog bite injuries in humans remain a public health problem. There is limited nationally representative data on the magnitude of the problem and the epidemiological profile of dog bite injuries in South Africa.
Nyitiba Ishaya, Talat Habib, Cornel van Rooyen, Wilhelm J. Steinberg   +3 more
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Online videos indicate human and dog behaviour preceding dog bites and the context in which bites occur

Scientific Reports, 2018
YouTube videos of dog bites present an unexplored opportunity to observe dog bites directly. We recorded the context of bites, bite severity, victim and dog characteristics for 143 videos and for 56 videos we coded human and dog behaviour before the bite.
Sara C. Owczarczak-Garstecka, Francine Watkins, Rob Christley, Carri Westgarth   +3 more
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Epidemiology of dog bites in Patna: A cross sectional study

Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine, 2015
Background: Dogs bite more than 4.7 million people a globally. India has the highest rate of human rabies in the world, primarily because of stray dogs, whose number has largely increased since 2001.
N Agarwal, C M Singh, Kumar Gulsha, S Singh, S Sinha, K Singh, G K Singh   +6 more
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Insights about the Epidemiology of Dog Bites in a Canadian City Using a Dog Aggression Scale and Administrative Data

Animals, 2019
Dog bites are a public health concern that also implicates animal welfare, with negative outcomes such as rehoming or euthanasia for the animals responsible.
Niamh Caffrey, Melanie Rock, Olivia Schmidtz, Doug Anderson, Melissa Parkinson, Sylvia L. Checkley   +5 more
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Dog-bite injuries in Korea and risk factors for significant dog-bite injuries: A 6-year cross-sectional study.

PLoS ONE, 2019
IntroductionAn accurate understanding of the current status of dog-bite injuries in Korea is essential for establishing preventive strategies. There have been no national reports about dog-bite injuries in Korea. This study investigated dog-bite injuries
Joong Wan Park, Do Kyun Kim, Jae Yun Jung, Se Uk Lee, Ikwan Chang, Young Ho Kwak, Soyun Hwang   +6 more
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The changing epidemiology of dog bite injuries in the United States, 2005–2018

Injury Epidemiology, 2020
Background In 2018, the most recent year for which data are available, dog bites ranked as the 13th leading cause of nonfatal emergency department visits in the United States.
Peter S. Tuckel, William Milczarski
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Dog Bite [PDF]

Al-Anbar Medical Journal, 2019
A 28-years-old female patient was referred from a District Hospital to our Emergency Department suffering from an extensive soft tissue loss on the scalp and face after being bitten by a dog (Panel A) 2-weeks before the presentation.
Tahrir N. Aldelaim, Afrah A. Khalil
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Investigation into dog bite in cattle, goats and dog at selected veterinary hospitals in Bangladesh and India

Journal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal Research, 2016
Objective: The study was conducted to estimate the proportionate prevalence of dog bite in cattle, goats and dog at selected veterinary hospitals in Bangladesh and India, and to assess the farmers' knowledge level about dog bite and rabies in general ...
Kazi Muhammad Fakhrul Islam, Md Iqbal Hossain, Shah Jalal, Md Nurul Quader, Saroj Kumar, Kamrul Islam, Ashif Imtiaz Shawn, Ahasanul Hoque   +7 more
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Delays in initiating rabies post-exposure prophylaxis among dog bite victims in Wakiso and Kampala districts, Uganda [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Open Research Africa, 2021
Background   Although rabies in dog bite patients is preventable through timely initiation of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), a number of barriers to achieving PEP exist. This study investigated the delays to initiation of PEP among dog bite patients in
Gloria Bahizi, Samuel Majalija, SM Thumbi, Fredrick Makumbi, Stevens Kisaka   +4 more
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