Failure of postexposure prophylaxis in a girl child attacked by rabid dog severing her facial nerve causing possible direct entry of rabies virus into the facial nerve
On January 4, 2019 an eight-year-old girl child was bitten by a suspected rabid dog over the left parotid region. After a 17-h delay, the child was brought for rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) at Civil Hospital Theog and was administered complete PEP. On January 29, 2019, the child was again br...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1608131 |