How familiar are our doctors towards Rabies prophylaxis- A study from coastal south India.

• Main Authors: Ramesh Holla (Author), Bhagawan Darshan (Author), Astha Guliani (Author), Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan (Author), Rekha Thapar (Author), Prasanna Mithra (Author), Nithin Kumar (Author), Vaman Kulkarni (Author), Avinash Kumar (Author), Salman Anwar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rabies, a 100% fatal disease claims more than 59,000 human lives every year globally. One human life is lost every 15 minutes due to this deadly preventable disease. Timely initiation of post exposure prophylaxis following an animal exposure can result in 100% preventability of this fatal disease.Th...