Rabies antibody levels in pregnant women and their newborns after rabies post-exposure prophylaxis

• Main Authors: Ahmad Fayaz (Author), Susan Simani (Author), Vida Fallahian (Author), Ali Eslamifar (Author), Mahboob Hazrati (Author), Firoozeh Farahtaj (Author), Nader Howaizi (Author), Peivand Biglari (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Rabies is a fatal infectious disease and rabies post-exposure prophylaxis is the method of choice for prevention of human rabies.Case series: We report rabies antibody levels in cord blood and also in serum of pregnant women who were bitten by suspected animals to rabies and were immuniz...