Failure of rabies postexposure prophylaxis in patients presenting with unusual manifestations

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-79

  Shantavasinkul, Prapimporn ^a,b   Tantawichien, Terapong ^b   Wacharapluesadee, Supaporn ^c   Jeamanukoolkit, Anuruck ^a   Udomchaisakul, Piyada ^b   Chattranukulchai, Pairoj ^a   Wongsaroj, Patarapha ^a   Khawplod, Pakamatz ^b   Wilde, Henry ^b   Hemachudha, Thiravat ^d  

^a THAI RED CROSS AIDS RESEARCH CENTRE   (Thailand)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c POLICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOG BITE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIMB WEAKNESS; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RABIES; TRISMUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MALE; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72049088299     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649873     Document Type: Article

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