Consumption of human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) for major animal bites in government hospitals of Sri Lanka.
<p>Abstract<br />Introduction:Rabies still remains as a significant public health problem in Sri Lanka. Published data related to the usage of human rabies immunoglobulins (HRIG) which is an expensive biological used for post exposure prophylaxis and the types of animal bites are limited...
Main Authors: | WDNL Amarasinghe, O Wimalaratne, S Nanayakkara, TKGS. Sumathipala, MGK. De Costa |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sri Lankan Society for Microbiology
2016-10-01
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Series: | Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://sljid.sljol.info/articles/8114 |
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