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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2462</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7324/IJCRR.2018.10610</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An assessment of Knowledge of Prevention and Management of Rabiesin Second Year MBBS Students of American International Institute of Medical Sciences, Udaipur (Rajasthan)&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mali</surname><given-names>Abhilasha</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Solanki</surname><given-names>Shiv Lal</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>28</day><month>03</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>49</fpage><lpage>52</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Rabies is a viral zoonotic disease and human infection usually occurs following transdermal bite or scratch by an infected animal. It is one of the most dangerous, fatal and completely preventable disease.&#13;
Objectives: The main objective of present research is to assess the knowledge regarding preventive measures, wound management of Rabies.&#13;
Methods: A cross sectional study conducted in November 2017 to December 2017. Data was collected by using questionnaire from undergraduate 150 students studying in second MBBS at AIIMS medical college, Udaipur (Rajasthan) India. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS V.17. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test were applied. KAP score were calculated. p__ampersandsignlt;0.05 was considered statistically significant.&#13;
Results: In our study 56.67% agreed that pre-exposure vaccination was useful. 60% were male and 40% were female. 62.66% among them had poor KAP score. KAP score associated with sex, native place and history of animal bite.&#13;
Conclusion: The study shows that subjects had poor knowledge about preventive practice for pre -exposure vaccination of animal bite and rabies in the study population which needs to overcome immediately with proper training for vaccination in pre __ampersandsignndash; exposure profile excess.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Post exposure prophylaxis</kwd><kwd> Infection</kwd><kwd> Zoonotic disease</kwd><kwd> Fatal</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
