Two fatal cases of rabies in humans who did not receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis in Nigeria

These two cases highlight some of the many challenges encountered when handling dog bite and rabies exposure. They also provide examples of the many barriers, and while highlighting only two individuals, they are likely representative of large numbers of the over 59 000 people that die every year fr...

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Autores principales: Audu, Solomom W., Mshelbwala, Philip P., Jahun, Balarabe M., Bouaddi, Khadija, Weese, Jeofrey Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6452487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30997078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1972
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author Audu, Solomom W.
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spelling pubmed-64524872019-04-17 Two fatal cases of rabies in humans who did not receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis in Nigeria Audu, Solomom W. Mshelbwala, Philip P. Jahun, Balarabe M. Bouaddi, Khadija Weese, Jeofrey Scott Clin Case Rep Case Reports These two cases highlight some of the many challenges encountered when handling dog bite and rabies exposure. They also provide examples of the many barriers, and while highlighting only two individuals, they are likely representative of large numbers of the over 59 000 people that die every year from this preventable disease. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6452487/ /pubmed/30997078 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1972 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_fullStr Two fatal cases of rabies in humans who did not receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis in Nigeria
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title_short Two fatal cases of rabies in humans who did not receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis in Nigeria
title_sort two fatal cases of rabies in humans who did not receive rabies postexposure prophylaxis in nigeria
topic Case Reports
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30997078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1972
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