Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in the Philippines: Health status of patients having received purified equine F(ab)́2 fragment rabies immunoglobulin (favirab)

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Quiambao, Beatriz P ^a   DyTioco, Hazel Z ^b   Dizon, Ruby M ^b   Crisostomo, Marilyn E ^c   Laot, Thelma M ^a   Teuwen, Dirk E ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Philippines)

^b Sanofi Pasteur   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^d SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; FAVIRAB; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB')2 FRAGMENT; RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOG BITE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHILIPPINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRURITUS; RABIES; SHOULDER INJURY; SUTURING METHOD; TETANUS; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ANIMAL; CAT; DOG; HORSE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPHYLAXIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILIPPINES; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 48949118060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000243     Document Type: Article

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