Treatment of rabies in the 21st century: Curing the incurable?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1135-1140

  Franka, Richard ^a   Rupprecht, Charles E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

antivirals; cultural and socioeconomic factors; human rabies; neglected zoonoses; pathogenicity; prophylaxis; survivors; treatment

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DIPLOID CELL VACCINE; HYPERRAB; KETAMINE; KETANEST; MULTIFERON; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2A; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RABIES IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE; RIBAVIRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; APPLIED RESEARCH; ARTICLE; DOG BITE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SURVIVOR; VACCINATION; VECTOR CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; RABIES VIRUS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80054808122     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.92     Document Type: Article

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