Open AccessChildhood horse and donkey bites; a single tertiary health center experience in a rural area
Author(s) -
İbrahim Hakan Bucak,
Kasım Turgut,
Habip Almış,
Mehmet Turğut
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
avicenna journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-4464
pISSN - 2231-0770
DOI - 10.4103/ajm.ajm_158_19
Subject(s) - donkey , medicine , animal bites , rabies , emergency department , horse , vaccination , pediatrics , veterinary medicine , incidence (geometry) , dog bite , equidae , immunology , virology , ecology , paleontology , physics , psychiatry , optics , biology
The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics of patients presenting to a pediatric emergency department in a rural province of Turkey due to horse and donkey bites and to analyze whether these features differ from those of more common animal bites in rural areas.