Five year experience of preexposure and postexposure rabies prophylaxis in Korean children at the National Medical Center

Korean Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-16

  Noh, Jin Chul ^a   Park, Hyang Mi ^a   Park, Jong Hyun ^a   Won, Youn Kyung ^a   Lee, Chang Hyu ^a   Kim, Jae Yoon ^a  

^a National Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Postexposure prophylaxis; Preexposure prophylaxis; Rabies

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BITE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INOCULATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RABIES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84878333210     PISSN: 12263923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14776/kjpid.2013.20.1.9     Document Type: Article

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