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Household exposure and animal-bite surveillance following human rabies detection in Southern Ghana
INTRODUCTION: Rabies remains a neglected tropical zoonotic disease with 100% case fatality rate and estimated 6,000 global mortality annually, and yet vaccine preventable. In Ghana, rabies outbreaks receive poor response. We investigated rabies in a 5-year old boy to find the source of infection, id...
Autores principales: | Afakye, Kofi, Kenu, Ernest, Nyarko, Kofi Mensah, Johnson, Sherry Ama Mawuko, Wongnaah, Florence, Bonsu, George Kwame |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5257017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149437 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2016.25.1.6200 |
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