Bir bölge hastanesi acil servisine kuduz şüphesiyle başvuran olguların değerlendirilmesi [The evaluation of the patients who admitted to a regional hospital emergency service with suspect of rabies]
Nurettin Tunç 1 * , Gökhan Temiz, Evin Aras, Aytaç Bilgiç, Sevda Onat
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1 Dicle Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Etiği Anabilim Dalı, Diyarbakır Turkey* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Objectives: Rabies is one of the highest mortality rates infectious disease. The aim was the evaluation of the patients who admitted to The Batman Regional State Hospital Emergency Service with suspect of rabies in the dates between June 2011 and November 2011.
Materials and methods: Totally, 166 cases who admitted to our center was recorded according to the following data: place of residence (rural/urban), contact type and wound information, time after the contact, whether vaccine or immunoglobulin is applied or not and also the species, breed and being owned of suspected animal.
Results: Our study population consisted of a total of 166 cases including 38 women (23%), 128 men (77%) with the mean age of 22.01 ± 17.90 years. Of all subjects, 105 (63%) lived in urban and 61 (37%) lived in rural areas. Eighty-five percent of suspicious animals (51%) had an owner, while 81 animals were unattended.
Conclusions: Our results showed that all admitted patients were vaccinated and the ones contacted with pets or had a surface wound were vaccinated with 3 doses. Moreover, since the 49% of our cases were contacted with animals which cannot be follow-up, our study obviously reveals that in our country deficiencies in the control of waifs still is a public health problem and increases the cost of vaccination.

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Article Type: Research Article

J Clin Exp Invest, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2012, 383-386

https://doi.org/10.5799/ahinjs.01.2012.03.0183

Publication date: 11 Sep 2012

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