When horse serum meets dog bite
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A 61-year-old woman visited our clinic to continue rabies post-exposure vaccination. She had sustained a dog bite on the right calf during a journey to South Asia seven days earlier. Immediately after the bite she received several injections on both upper arms, as well as around the bite site, at a local clinic. Active immunisation with Verorab 1 , intradermally applied at both deltoid areas on days 0 and 3, was documented on the vaccination card. Passive immunisation was not recorded. Simultaneous to post-exposure immunisation she was started on oral amoxicillin–clavulanic acid for 10 days. Fig. 1. (A) Right calf and (B) right thigh.
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