Vinoth G. Chellaiyan

Profile of Patients Attending an Animal Bite Management Clinic in Rural Pondicherry, India

S. V. Nikhil, S. A. Rizwan, Vinoth G. Chellaiyan, V. Kavita, Ravi P. Upadhyay & C. Palanivel · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2014

Aims: In India, annual incidence of animal bite is estimated as 1.7 per 100 population and that of human rabies as 1.7 per 1,00,000 population. Since rabies is universally fatal it requires prevention through timely management by wound care, Anti-Rabies Vaccine (ARV) and rabies i...