Animal Bites
Pattern of animal bites and post exposure prophylaxis in rabies: A five year study in a tertiary care unit in Sri Lanka
... and animal lovers feed ...many bites were inflicted by dogs which roam every corners and streets of the villages and cities of the ...of animal bites were below 25 years ...
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An epidemiologic study of animal bites in North Khorasan Province, Iran, from 2005 to 2011
... effective animal and human vaccines are widely available for its prevention and ...to animal bites, such as rabies, is to identify the associated risk ...
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A Case Study of Delayed Primary Suturing in Facial Injuries Following Animal Bites
... in animal bites in order to prevent wound sepsis and achieving better cosmetic results where traditionally keeping the wound open to heal on its own was a main line of treatment in rural parts of developing ...
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Bacteriology of human and animal bite wounds
... A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.. A total [r] ...
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Deshpande
... with animal bites reporting to health care setup are envenomation cases caused by snake bites and scorpion ...the bites must be from non-venomous snakes and non-poisonous ...
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Toxicological Pattern of Poisoning in Urban Hospitals of Western India
... referred to another hospital [p<0.05]. Symptoms improved in 74.5 % cases and did not improve in 9.8%. The mortality found in the present study was 9.8% with predominance of males to females in death cases. According ...
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... In the study of Rabies in endemic areas of Korea (2005-2009), most patients were bitten on the hand or leg (44.2% and 33.9%, respectively), followed by the arm (9.6%), foot (4.0%), face (2.5%), and hip (1.1%). Some ...
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Pasteurella multocida in Dog and Cat Bite Infections
... The following cases of animal bites infected.. by this organism are reported because, when.[r] ...
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Singh
... estimated animal bites per year are around ...of animal bite is 1.7%. 3 The frequency of animal bites in India lies at 1 per 2 ...dog bites are the most prevalent among ...
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Factors associated with delay in post-exposure prophylaxis in
... human animal bites, its risk factors and the key aspects of health services that could be targeted to improve the treatment of patients reporting animal-bite ...of animal bite injuries were ...
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The Analysis of the Treatment of Rhabdomyolysis by Snake Bites
... snake bites include the following: 1) the direct effect of toxins, venom is mixed toxins containing neurotoxin, blood toxins and cytotox- ins (commonly known as muscle toxins) ...snake bites [8]; if not ...
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Raised houses reduce mosquito bites
... Malaria was introduced in the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe shortly after colonization in the early 1500's [7]. Sporozoite rates in An. gambiae, the only vector present on the islands, are generally less than 1% ...
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An Observational Study of Midline Abdominal Wound Closure Using Small Tissue Bites versus Large Tissue Bites with Reference to Surgical Site Infections and Wound Dehiscence
... tissue bites and thick sutures for safe abdominal closure ...tissue bites versus large tissue bites with reference to surgical site infection and wound ...
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Venomous snake bites: clinical diagnosis and treatment
... Yamakagashi is a rear-fanged venomous snake that lives near rivers, ponds, and paddy fields, the same habitat as mamushi. Snakes of the same genus, such as Rhabdophis lateralis and Rhabdophis subminiatus, are distributed ...
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Major Coagulopathy and "Nonpoisonous" Snake Bites
... Patients presenting to medical facilities with clinical evidence of snake bite envenomation are likely to be considered victims of pit viper (ie envenomation) in most areas of the United[r] ...
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Prevention of tick bites: an evaluation of a smartphone app
... At present, a vaccine is not available and effective measures for controlling tick populations are not suffi- cient or are still in the experimental phase. Therefore, a reduction in LB incidence should be focused on pre- ...
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Incidence of Myonecrosis in Haemotoxic, Neurotoxic Snakebites and Its correlation with Acute Renal Failure
... Our study revealed that viper snake bites have a higher degree of myonecrosis with a mean CPKMM value of 676.4 IU/L, followed by unknown snake bites with a mean CPK-MM value of 624.3 IU/[r] ...
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Prospective malaria control using entomopathogenic fungi: comparative evaluation of impact on transmission and selection for resistance
... All model parameters are age-independent, apart from background mortality rates and the action of age-linked pesticides, with incremental mortality from fungal bio- pesticide infection varying according to the number of ...
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Learning Ensembles from Bites: A Scalable and Accurate Approach
... We partitioned our small and moderate sized data sets, with the exception of DNA, into four disjoint partitions and used bites of size 800 to learn classifiers. Due to the smaller size of DNA, we parti- tioned it ...
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Effect of antivenom therapy of Rhabdophis tigrinus (Yamakagashi snake) bites
... snake bites usually ask for the assistance of the Japan Snake Institute, where diagnosis is confirmed according to laboratory data and clinical ...tigrinus bites were recorded in this ...
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