1. Trends and clinico-epidemiological features of human rabies cases in Bangladesh 2006-2018
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Abul Khair Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Hasan Sayedul Mursalin, S.M. Emran Ali, Sohel Rana, Nitish C. Debnath, Umme Ruman Siddiqi, Afsana Jahan, Be-Nazir Ahmed, Najmul Haider, Sayed Mohammed Ullah, Rashed Ali Shah, Mohammad Abdullah Heel Kafi, Sukanta Chowdhury, Sanya Tahmina Jhora, Aung Swi Prue Marma, Shohrab Hossain, Kamrul Islam, Sumon Ghosh, and R. K. Bhowmik
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Rabies ,Epidemiology ,030231 tropical medicine ,education ,lcsh:Medicine ,Lower limb ,Article ,Incubation period ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,Dogs ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Dog Diseases ,Young adult ,lcsh:Science ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Bangladesh ,Multidisciplinary ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Incidence ,lcsh:R ,Vaccination ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Rabies Vaccines ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Rabies virus ,Viral infection ,lcsh:Q ,Female ,business - Abstract
Vaccinating dogs against rabies is an effective means of reducing human rabies. We subjected 1327 clinically diagnosed human rabies death and mass dog vaccination (MDV) data during 2006–2018 to quantify the impacts of MDV on human rabies incidence in Bangladesh and a subset of rabies death data (422) for clinico-epidemiological analysis. A positive and increasing trend of MDV (p = 0.01 and tau = 0.71) and a negative and declining trend (p
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- 2020