Reducing Cost of Rabies Post Exposure Prophylaxis: Experience of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Pakistan.

Rabies is a uniformly fatal disease, but preventable by timely and correct use of post exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Unfortunately, many health care facilities in Pakistan do not carry modern life-saving vaccines and rabies immunoglobulin (RIG), assuming them to be prohibitively expensive and unsafe....

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Main Authors: Naseem Salahuddin, M Aftab Gohar, Naila Baig-Ansari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-02-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4769324?pdf=render