Assessing clinicians’ Post-Exposure Prophylaxis recommendations for rabies virus exposures in Hunan Province, China

• Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 15; no. 7; p. e0009564
• Main Authors: Li, Yu, Rainey, Jeanette J, Yang, Hao, Tran, Cuc H, Huai, Yang, Liu, Rongqiang, Zhu, Hongwei, Wang, Zhengliang, Mu, Di, Yin, Wenwu, Guo, Chun, Shiferaw, Miriam, Chen, Qiulan, Hu, Shixiong, Li, Zhongjie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 01.07.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Biology and life sciences; Case management; Categories; Clinics; Control; Demographics; Disease control; Disease prevention; Disease prophylaxis; Evaluation; Exposure; Globulins; Guidelines; Health surveillance; Identification; Immunization; Immunoglobulins; Lyssavirus; Medical personnel; Medicine and Health Sciences; Observers; Patients; People and Places; Prophylaxis; Public health; Rabies; Risk; Rural areas; Surveys; Teams; Training; Tropical diseases; Vaccines; Viruses; Working hours; Wound healing; Wounds; China; Hunan China

Background Timely and appropriate administration of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is an essential component of human rabies prevention programs. We evaluated patient care at rabies clinics in a high-risk county in Hunan Province, China to inform strategies needed to achieve dog-mediated human rabi...