Revisiting rabies in Japan: Is there cause for alarm?

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 263-275

  Tamashiro, Hiko ^a   Matibag, Gino C ^a   Ditangco, Rossana A ^a   Kanda, Koji ^a   Ohbayashi, Yoshi ^a  

^a Graduate School of Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Pre and post exposure prophylaxis; Rabies; Rabies vaccine; Traveler

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DEATH; DOG BITE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ERADICATION THERAPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LAW; NONHUMAN; PHILIPPINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SRI LANKA; THAILAND; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CATS; DOGS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; RABIES; SRI LANKA; THAILAND; TRAVEL;

EID: 34548536445     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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