Re-emergence of animal rabies in northern Greece and subsequent human exposure, October 2012 - March 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Tsiodras, S ^a,b   Dougas, G ^a   Baka, A ^a   Billinis, C ^c   Doudounakis, S ^d   Balaska, A ^a   Georgakopoulou, T ^a   Rigakos, G ^a   Kontos, V ^e   Efstathiou, P ^f   Tsakris, A ^b   Hadjichristodoulou, C ^c   Kremastinou, J ^a,e  

^a Ministry of Health   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d Ministry of Rural Development and Food   (Greece)

^e NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^f National Health Operations Center of the Ministry of Health (EKEPY)   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOG; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; FOX; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84877311377     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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