BMC Infectious Diseases

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Rabies trend in China (1990–2007) and post-exposure prophylaxis in the Guangdong province

Han Si1,2, Zhong-Min Guo3, Yuan-Tao Hao1, Yu-Ge Liu1,2, Ding-Mei Zhang1,2, Shao-Qi Rao1,4* and Jia-Hai Lu1,2*

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1 Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, PR China

2 Laboratory for Tropical Disease Control and Prevention (Key Laboratories of the Ministry of Education of China), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, PR China

3 Centre for Experimental Animal, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, PR China

4 Departments of Molecular Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

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BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8:113 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-8-113

Published: 21 August 2008

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Table S1 – Degree of exposure and treatment schedules for human rabies, adopted from the criteria set by the Ministry of Health of China, 2006.

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Table S2 – Pre-exposure and post-exposure schedules for rabies, currently used in China.

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Figure S1 – Spatial distributions of rabies classified by the sites of lesion.

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