Rabies diagnosis for developing countries.

• Principais autores: Salome Dürr (Autor), Service Naïssengar (Autor), Rolande Mindekem (Autor), Colette Diguimbye (Autor), Michael Niezgoda (Autor), Ivan Kuzmin (Autor), Charles E Rupprecht (Autor), Jakob Zinsstag (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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BACKGROUND: Canine rabies is a neglected disease causing 55,000 human deaths worldwide per year, and 99% of all cases are transmitted by dog bites. In N'Djaména, the capital of Chad, rabies is endemic with an incidence of 1.71/1,000 dogs (95% C.I. 1.45-1.98). The gold standard of rabies diagno...