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Epidemiology and surveillance of human animal-bite injuries and rabies post-exposure prophylaxis, in selected counties in Kenya, 2011–2016

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 rabies post exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Unders...

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Autores principales: Ngugi, Jeremiah Ngurimu, Maza, Alfred Kilango, Omolo, Owiti Jack, Obonyo, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30092769
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5888-5