Proposal of abolition of the skin sensitivity test before equine rabies immune globulin application

An epizootic outbreak of rabies occurred in 1995 in Ribeirão Preto, SP, with 58 cases of animal rabies (54 dogs, 3 cats and 1 bat) confirmed by the Pasteur Institute of São Paulo, and one human death. The need to provide care to a large number of people for the application of equine rabies immune gl...

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Main Authors: CUPO Palmira, AZEVEDO-MARQUES Marisa M. de, SARTI Willy, HERING Sylvia Evelyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2001-01-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652001000100010