Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats
Rabies is an anthropozoonosis that presents approximately 100% lethality and expensive preventive assistance. Many human post-exposure anti-rabies treatments indicated for people at risk of exposure to rabies virus, usually due to some aggression by a mammalian animal, are instituted annually. This...
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| author | Isabela de Lourdes Araújo Mariana de Assis Lopes Frankó Tiago Mendonça de Oliveira Soraia de Araujo Diniz Marcos Xavier Silva |
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| description | Rabies is an anthropozoonosis that presents approximately 100% lethality and expensive preventive assistance. Many human post-exposure anti-rabies treatments indicated for people at risk of exposure to rabies virus, usually due to some aggression by a mammalian animal, are instituted annually. This study aimed to evaluate the initial care of post-exposure prophylaxis of human rabies in Belo Horizonte between 2007 and 2016, involving accidents with domestic cats. It was found 71.1% agreement between the treatments instituted by health services and the protocol of the Ministry of Health. Treatments classified as insufficient totaled 18.3% and excessive, 10.6%. The animals were healthy in 68% and observable in 68.4% of the cases. Treatments involving the use of anti-rabies vaccine totaled 87.7%. The most frequent treatment adopted by the health services was observing the animals associated with the human anti-rabies vaccination in 56.7% of the cases. Imperfections in the filling of the notifications must be revised to enable improvements for future analyses. As for human prophylactic anti-rabies care, forming a multidisciplinary health team including veterinarians would be well on the way to improving the service offered. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-380176f576c44dc6a0509fb87eca79802023-09-03T13:25:13ZengUniversidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA)Acta Veterinaria Brasilica1981-54842022-08-0116327327910.21708/avb.2022.16.3.10825Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic catsIsabela de Lourdes Araújo0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1967-3355Mariana de Assis Lopes Frankó1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8093-0635Tiago Mendonça de Oliveira2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9556-7197Soraia de Araujo Diniz3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4163-3563Marcos Xavier Silva4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9470-4062Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de veteranária, Belo Horizonte-Minas Gerais - Brasil.Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de veteranária, Belo Horizonte-Minas Gerais - Brasil.Coordenação Geral de Imunizações (CGPNI), Setor SRTVN Quadra 701 Lote D Asa Norte, Brasília, DF - Brasil.Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Campus Unaí - Minas Gerais - Brasil.Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de veteranária, Belo Horizonte-Minas Gerais - Brasil.Rabies is an anthropozoonosis that presents approximately 100% lethality and expensive preventive assistance. Many human post-exposure anti-rabies treatments indicated for people at risk of exposure to rabies virus, usually due to some aggression by a mammalian animal, are instituted annually. This study aimed to evaluate the initial care of post-exposure prophylaxis of human rabies in Belo Horizonte between 2007 and 2016, involving accidents with domestic cats. It was found 71.1% agreement between the treatments instituted by health services and the protocol of the Ministry of Health. Treatments classified as insufficient totaled 18.3% and excessive, 10.6%. The animals were healthy in 68% and observable in 68.4% of the cases. Treatments involving the use of anti-rabies vaccine totaled 87.7%. The most frequent treatment adopted by the health services was observing the animals associated with the human anti-rabies vaccination in 56.7% of the cases. Imperfections in the filling of the notifications must be revised to enable improvements for future analyses. As for human prophylactic anti-rabies care, forming a multidisciplinary health team including veterinarians would be well on the way to improving the service offered.https://periodicos.ufersa.edu.br/acta/article/view/10825rabiespost exposure prophylaxisdomestic catshuman anti-rabies prophylaxis |
| spellingShingle | Isabela de Lourdes Araújo Mariana de Assis Lopes Frankó Tiago Mendonça de Oliveira Soraia de Araujo Diniz Marcos Xavier Silva Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats Acta Veterinaria Brasilica rabies post exposure prophylaxis domestic cats human anti-rabies prophylaxis |
| title | Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats |
| title_full | Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats |
| title_fullStr | Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats |
| title_short | Human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats |
| title_sort | human rabies post exposure prophylaxis a review of the treatment of accidents involving domestic cats |
| topic | rabies post exposure prophylaxis domestic cats human anti-rabies prophylaxis |
| url | https://periodicos.ufersa.edu.br/acta/article/view/10825 |
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