Courses of post-exposure rabies vaccination in clinical practice are often not administered completely. If suspected animals are still alive after 10 days of observation, full post-exposure vaccination will usually be withheld from bite victims. In this study, we compared the cost differences between complete and incomplete courses of post-exposure rabies vaccination. The cost calculations were...

The paper describes a rabies outbreak in Malopolska voivodeship in 2010 after seven years without of rabies cases in this region, and a phylogenetic study of rabies isolates collected from this area with known variants of rabies virus circulating in Europe. The study excludes implication of rabies vaccine strain, used for oral vaccination of foxes, in the outbreak. The results of phylogenetic i...

This study determined the proportion of captive juvenile and adult African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) that developed protective titres of rabies neutralising antibodies following ingestion of a chicken head bait/SAG-2 oral rabies vaccine combination. A single chicken head containing 1.8 ml of SAG-2 vaccine (10(8.0) TCID50/ml) in a plastic blister was fed to each of eight adult and three juvenile...

To control the Arctic variant of rabies virus in red foxes, 332,257 bait doses containing live, attenuated Evelyn-Rokitnicki-Abelseth rabies vaccine were distributed in greater metropolitan Toronto during 1989-1999. Human and pet contact with bait was minimal, and no adverse reactions to the vaccine were noted. Significantly fewer rabid foxes were found during the 17 years after fox baiting (5 ...

Rabies is the most important viral zoonosis from a global perspective. Modern human postexposure prophylaxis consists of potent vaccines and local infiltration of rabies immune globulins (RIGs), but the latter biologicals are not widely available or affordable. Monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) offer several theoretical advantages over RIGs. To this end, several human and equine RIGS, alone or in co...

Beginning in 2006, point infection control operations and aerial distribution of oral rabies vaccines along the US border were performed in Quebec, Canada, to control the potential spread of raccoon rabies. A benefit-cost analysis assessed the economic efficiency of this rabies control programme into the future. In this study, a mathematical simulation model was used to determine the potential ...

Introduction Rabies is a zoonotic disease of high public health importance1. There have been documented reports of rabies in vaccinated dogs2. Rabies is enzootic in domestic dogs in Nigeria. Hence, annual vaccination campaigns of dogs are advocated with the aim of rabies elimination. Vaccination status, type of vaccination and the immunogenicity of the various rabies vaccines used in Abuja Nige...

In the present report an in vitro method for obtaining a secondary human antibody response to a dog kidney cell vaccine against rabies virus (DKCV) is described. Cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from normal rabies-immune and nonimmune donors were stimulated in vitro by DKCV. The production of virus-specific antibody in supernatant fluids was monitored by ELISA. Antibody was produc...

A retrospective audit was conducted of all issues of rabies vaccine or human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) from the Clinical Microbiology Department at University Hospital Aintree for post-exposure prophylaxis. The appropriateness of management was reviewed by a blinded panel, which used guidelines issued by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) as a standard. Thirty-six enquiries, on average 9 day...

During recent years, most research on the control of sylvatic rabies has concentrated on developing methods of oral vaccination of wild rabies vectors. To improve both the safety and the stability of the vaccine used, a recombinant vaccinia virus, which expresses the immunising glycoprotein of rabies virus (VRG), has been developed and tested extensively in the laboratory as well as in the fiel...