Successful postexposure rabies prophylaxis after erroneous starting treatment

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-31

  Haviv, Jacob ^a   Rishpon, Shmuel ^b   Gdalevich, Michael ^a   Mimouni, Daniel ^a   Gross, Ellis ^c   Shpilberg, Ofer ^a,d  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b Haifa District Health Office   (Israel)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Failure; Postexposure prophylaxis; Rabies; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; SOLDIER; VACCINATION;

EID: 0032801315     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1999.0498     Document Type: Article

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