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Sep 23rd, 2021 - Post-exposure prophylaxis using rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) is universal recommendation for category III exposures. This study was conducted to determine quantity of RIG used to infiltrate animal bite wounds in relation to longest dimension and ar...

Jun 18th, 2021 - PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases broadens its coverage of envenomings caused by animal bites and stings.|2021|Gutiérrez JM,Chippaux JP,Isbister GK,|

Jun 13th, 2021 - Dogs are the animal most frequently implicated in causing bite injuries to the human face. Dog bite injuries are most prevalent in younger patients. Pasteurella species are commensals of the oral microbiome of dogs and cats and are frequently impl...

May 26th, 2021 - Rabies is one of the oldest zoonosis viral diseases, which still remains as one of the most important threats to public health in the 21st century. This cross-sectional study examined epidemiologic features of all 33,996 cases of persons bitten by...

Apr 20th, 2021 - Rabies is a vaccine-preventable fatal zoonotic disease. Uganda, through the veterinary surveillance system at National Animal Disease Diagnostics and Epidemiology Centre (NADDEC), captures animal bites (a proxy for rabies) on a monthly basis from ...

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...

Jul 7th, 2015 - Discussion Cat bites often are the source of Pasteurella species infections because the bacteria are carried by more than 90% of cats. 1 These types of infections can cause septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, and deep subcutaneous and myofascial infec.

Jun 25th, 2014 - New practice guidelines on skin and soft tissue infections from the Infectious Diseases Society of America stress careful clinical attention to the type of infection, the epidemiological setting in which the infection occurred, the health status o.

Nov 12th, 2013 - ORLANDO – Most children presenting to the emergency department with a limp have a traumatic etiology, and in most cases, a thorough history and physical examination coupled with radiographs are sufficient for diagnosis, a retrospective study of ca.