Rabies : scientific basis of the disease and its management /

The 'Bible' on Rabies has been completely revised to address the latest scientific advances in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and control of this fatal infectious virus, which continues to kill over 70,000 people each year. No other book covers rabies in the breadth and depth offere...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Jackson, Alan C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2013.
Edition:Third edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • History of rabies research
  • Rabies virus
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular epidemiology
  • Rabies in terrestrial animals
  • Bat rabies
  • Human disease
  • Pathogenesis
  • Pathology
  • Immunology
  • Laboratory diagnosis of rabies
  • Measures of rabies immunity
  • Rabies vaccines
  • Next generation of rabies vaccines
  • Public health management of humans at risk
  • Therapy of human rabies
  • Dog rabies and its control
  • Rabies control in wild carnivores
  • Blueprint for rabies prevention and control
  • Future developments and challenges.