Dog Demography, Animal Bite Management and Rabies Knowledge-Attitude and Practices in the Awash Basin, Eastern Ethiopia

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Tschopp, Rea ^a,b   Bekele, Shiferaw ^a   Aseffa, Abraham ^a  

^a ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOG BITE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NONHUMAN; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; RISK FACTOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; URBAN POPULATION; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BITES AND STINGS; DOG DISEASES; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; RABIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959296365     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004471     Document Type: Article

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