General Features and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis of Rabies.
- Author:
Jun Sun PARK
1
;
Myung Guk HAN
Author Information
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords: Rabies; vaccine; post-exposure prophylaxis
- MeSH: Humans; Immunoglobulins; Oligopeptides; Post-Exposure Prophylaxis; Rabies; Rabies virus; Vaccination; Vaccines
- From:Infection and Chemotherapy 2010;42(1):6-11
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: Rabies is a representative zoonotic disease caused by rabies virus. The discriminative features of rabies are broad range of hosts including humans, a wide variety of incubation periods ranging from a few weeks to more than a year, ability to bring about acute fetal consequence, and scare pathological lesions. Although rabies is fatal, it is preventable disease by vaccination and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). This review will focus on general features of rabies, and immunoglobulin and vaccines for PEP.
