Challenges facing human rabies control: The Lebanese experience

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1486-1494

  Bizri, A ^a   Alawieh, A ^a   Ghosn, N ^b   Berry, A ^b   Musharrafieh, U ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Rabies (human); virology

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG BITE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LEBANESE; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; RABIES; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE EAST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; RABIES VIRUS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RABIES; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84901429839     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813002392     Document Type: Article

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