ALLMedicine™ Animal Bites Center

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Background Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus first isolated in the cerebrospinal fluid of a woman during the 1933 Saint Louis encephalitis epidemic. [1] LCMV belongs to the viral family Arenavirida...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Background Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus first isolated in the cerebrospinal fluid of a woman during the 1933 Saint Louis encephalitis epidemic.[1] LCMV belongs to the viral family Arenaviridae...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Background Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is an enveloped single-stranded RNA virus first isolated in the cerebrospinal fluid of a woman during the 1933 Saint Louis encephalitis epidemic. [1] LCMV belongs to the viral family Arenavirida...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Background: Rabies is a fatal disease that can be avoided by treating animal bites promptly. Hence, post-exposure prophylaxis is critical. As a result, the National Rabies Control Program was approved under the 12th five-year plan in India. One of...

Jan 6th, 2023 - Practice Essentials Animal bites are not uncommon occurrences. However, patients who are treated in emergency centers represent only a small percentage of all bite victims. Although notification is mandatory in many states, an estimated 50% of all...

Nov 29th, 2021 - Bites from animal and humans represent a very small proportion of all the patients presenting to emergency departments, However, they require prompt medical and surgical intervention in order to minimise the risk of infection, that may lead to lim...

Jan 27th, 2023 - Background: Rabies is a fatal disease that can be avoided by treating animal bites promptly. Hence, post-exposure prophylaxis is critical. As a result, the National Rabies Control Program was approved under the 12th five-year plan in India. One of...

Aug 12th, 2020 - Snake bite is a common clinical problem in India and elsewhere, affecting agricultural workers and rural population, resulting in thousands of deaths every year. Apart from causing systemic manifestations such as coagulopathy, acute renal failure,...

Cases of rabies in dogs have been reported in Haiti, and dog vaccination against rabies is limited. Seek immediate medical attention for all animal bites or scratches.

Feb 18th, 2021 - Rabies is a terrifying disease. Once the virus enters a human host — typically by way of a bite from an infected animal — it creeps along from nerve cell to nerve cell until it reaches the brain. It usually takes a month or more for symptoms to sh...

Nov 6th, 2020 - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published new guidance setting out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for human and animal bites in adults and children. Metronidazole 400 mg three times a day. First-choice intra...

Jul 9th, 2020 - Pasteurella multocida infection is the most common infection contracted from cat bites. It may also be complicated by sepsis. Wound infections associated with animal bites usually have a polymicrobial etiology. Complications include rapidly progre...

May 16th, 2018 - A molecular test for rabies infection in animals that's dramatically easier to perform than current assays showed high sensitivity and specificity in analyzing real-world samples, CDC researchers said. In a press release announcing the results, th...