Rabies

Cost-Effective Regimens Offer Similar Protection

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 11th, 2001

by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Two postexposure rabies vaccine regimens recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) appear to have similar protective efficacy in an Indian population with mild exposure to the disease.

Further evaluation is needed in the field, but the intradermal vaccines appear to offer a cost-effective alternative to intramuscular injection, which may make them ideal for use in developing countries, said S.N. Madhusudana and colleagues at the National Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Karnataka.

"The World Health Organization has advocated two cost-effective intradermal regimens with cell culture...

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