Open AccessA Three-year (2011–2013) Surveillance on Animal Bites and Victims Vaccination in the South of Khorasan-e-Razavi Province, Iran
Author(s) -
Hamed Ramezani Awal Riabi,
Reza Ghorbannia,
Seyed Behnam Mazlum,
Alireza Atarodi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/15958.6865
Subject(s) - rabies , animal bites , medicine , vaccination , biting , rabies virus , dog bite , environmental health , post exposure prophylaxis , veterinary medicine , demography , demographics , disease control , public health , family medicine , virology , biology , ecology , nursing , sociology
Rabies is acute encephalitis caused by rabies virus and is transmissible between humans and warm blooded animals. The virus is belong to the family of Rabdoviridae and, of Lissavirus genus.