Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 102, Issue 10 , Pages 979-982 , October 2008

Viewpoint: management of human rabies

  • Henry Wilde

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, Division of Research and Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Thiravat Hemachudha

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Medicine, Division of Research and Department of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University Hospital, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
    • ,
  • Alan C. Jackson

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Internal Medicine (Neurology) and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Received 11 February 2008 ,Revised 3 April 2008 ,Accepted 3 April 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.04.008

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Volume 102, Issue 10 , Pages 979-982 , October 2008

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