Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis initiation and adherence among patients in Vietnam, 2014-2016.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Vietnam has made tremendous progress towards reducing the burden of rabies. However, despite the wide availability of PEP, we found relatively low rates of vaccine completion. Our findings suggest provider training and patient education is needed to ensure appropriate treatment is completed. Moreover, our data suggest changes to information reported through the national surveillance system for monitoring good clinical practice for rabies prevention and control.
PMID: 30723063 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Vaccine - February 2, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Tran CH, Afriyie DO, Pham TN, Otsu S, Urabe M, Dang AD, Tran HGT, Nguyen HV, Le HT, Nguyen HTT Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research