Historical Notes: Rabies, Anti-Rabic Vaccine and the Raj

Prophylactic Anti-Rabic Vaccine for Animals

Anti-Rabic Treatment

remote villages without sending the patients to anti-rabic centres? A search through literature tells us that nowadays anti-rabic vaccine can be sent out in ampoules to different parts of the country, thus doing away with the necessity of maintaining centralized anti-rabic institutes. Is the potency of the vaccine affected in any way during transit and storage at the ordinary room temperature? ...

Anti-Rabic Policy in India

A subject which came up for discussion at the annual Conference of Medical Research Workers in December, 1929, in Calcutta, and which is of considerable interest to our readers is the future of anti-rabic policy in India. Of recent years considerable work has been carried out at certain Pasteur Institutes in Central Europe on the use of an anti-rabic vaccine in which the virus has been attenuat...

Diagnostic dilemma in flaccid paralysis following anti-rabies vaccine.

sum of the foot including the first web space. He had left foot drop. The clinical impression was mononeuritis multiplex involving the right ulnar nerve, right medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm and the left common peroneal nerve. Prostatomegaly was evident on ultrasound scan. Nerve conduction study using surface electrodes showed low amplitude Compound muscle action potential (CMAP) of the ...

Immunogenicity of BHK-Rabies Vaccine in Cattle

In this study, the immunogenicity of a rabies vaccine that was used in one of the Isfahan cattle farms is reported. This vaccine was produced by replication of the Pasteur virus (PV) strain on BHK-21 monolayer cell culture. The virus suspension was inactivated by ß-propiolactone treatment and the harvested pool showed sterility and safety. Thus, the obtained vaccine was tested on mice and a sat...