Household exposure and animal-bite surveillance following human rabies detection in Southern Ghana

INTRODUCTION: Rabies remains a neglected tropical zoonotic disease with 100% case fatality rate and estimated 6,000 global mortality annually, and yet vaccine preventable. In Ghana, rabies outbreaks receive poor response. We investigated rabies in a 5-year old boy to find the source of infection, id...

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Published in:Pan Afr Med J
Main Authors: Afakye, Kofi, Kenu, Ernest, Nyarko, Kofi Mensah, Johnson, Sherry Ama Mawuko, Wongnaah, Florence, Bonsu, George Kwame
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5257017/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149437
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.supp.2016.25.1.6200
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