Re-evaluating the burden of rabies in Africa and Asia

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 360-368

  Knobel, Darryn L ^a   Cleaveland, Sarah ^a   Coleman, Paul G ^b   Fèvre, Eric M ^a   Meltzer, Martin I ^c   Miranda, M Elizabeth G ^d   Shaw, Alexandra ^e   Zinsstag, Jakob ^f   Meslin, François Xavier ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e AP Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^f SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; Cost of illness; Disability evaluation; Dogs; Health care costs; Models, Theoretical; Probability; Rabies mortality economics

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

COST; DISEASE PREVALENCE; RABIES;

AFRICA; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISABILITY; DOG; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; RURAL AREA; SIDE EFFECT; VACCINATION REACTION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ASIA; CATTLE; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOGS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 18944390116     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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