| Journal: | The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000298871 |
| ISSN: | 1678-9199 |
| Authors: | Ayres, J.A1 Peracoli, M.T.S2 Barraviera, B |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Botucatu, Sao Paulo. Brasil 2Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Instituto de Biociencias, Botucatu, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Season: | Mar |
| Volumen: | 11 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 8-21 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | Rabies is a viral acute encephalitis of progressive and fatal outcome, particular of hot-blooded animals, and accidentally affecting men. Since it is a zoonosis with different animal species acting as a reservoir in the nature, this disease is a great public health problem in several countries in development. Prophylactic treatments for human rabies started in 1885 with Louis Pasteur, and developed in order to provide higher protection and lower incidence of side effects. Today, treatments of pre and post-exposure to the virus are well established, with excellent results of protection for individuals exposed to animals potentially contaminated by the rabies virus. These treatments consist of utilising the vaccine isolatedly or in combination with equine immunoglobulin, what contributes, in an important way, to the decrease in the number of cases of rabies |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Microbiología, Inmunología, Rabia, Profilaxis, Suero heterólogo, Vacunas |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology, Rabies, Prophylaxis, Heterologous serum, Vaccines |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver HTML) |
