Current status of rabies and prospects for elimination

AR Fooks, AC Banyard, DL Horton, N Johnson… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Rabies is one of the most deadly infectious diseases, with a case-fatality rate approaching
100%. The disease is established on all continents apart from Antarctica; most cases are …

Human rabies: neuropathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

T Hemachudha, G Ugolini… - The Lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Rabies is an almost invariably fatal disease that can present as classic furious rabies or
paralytic rabies. Recovery has been reported in only a few patients, most of whom were …

Developments in rabies vaccines

DJ Hicks, AR Fooks, N Johnson - Clinical & Experimental …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The development of vaccines that prevent rabies has a long and distinguished history, with
the earliest preceding modern understanding of viruses and the mechanisms of immune …

Current and future approaches to the therapy of human rabies

AC Jackson - Antiviral research, 2013 - Elsevier
Human rabies has traditionally been considered a uniformly fatal disease. However, recent
decades have seen several instances in which individuals have developed clinical signs of …

Laboratory diagnosis of human rabies: recent advances

RS Mani, SN Madhusudana - The Scientific World Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Rabies, an acute progressive, fatal encephalomyelitis, transmitted most commonly through
the bite of a rabid animal, is responsible for an estimated 61,000 human deaths worldwide …

Rabies vaccination for international travelers

P Gautret, P Parola - Vaccine, 2012 - Elsevier
Rabies prevention in travelers is a controversial issue. According to experts, the decision to
vaccinate results from an individual risk assessment based on the duration of stay, the …

Critical appraisal of the Milwaukee protocol for rabies: this failed approach should be abandoned

FA Zeiler, AC Jackson - Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
The Milwaukee protocol has been attributed to survival in rabies encephalitis despite a lack
of scientific evidence supporting its therapeutic measures. We have reviewed the literature …

Recent updates on laboratory diagnosis of rabies

MA Ashwini, A Pattanaik, RS Mani - Indian Journal of Medical …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Rabies is a lethal viral disease transmitted through the bite of rabid animals. India has a high
burden of rabies, contributing to a significant proportion of the global deaths. However …

Prevention of human rabies: a challenge for the European Union and the European Economic Area

CM Gossner, A Mailles, I Aznar, E Dimina… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rabies is enzootic in over one hundred countries worldwide. In the European
Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA), the vast majority of human rabies cases are …

Evolutionary history of rabies in Ghana

DTS Hayman, N Johnson, DL Horton… - PLoS Neglected …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Rabies virus (RABV) is enzootic throughout Africa, with the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)
being the principal vector. Dog rabies is estimated to cause 24,000 human deaths per year …