ArticlePLoS neglected tropical diseases2017
Epidemiology, clinical features and risk factors for human rabies and animal bites during an outbreak of rabies in Maputo and Matola cities, Mozambique, 2014: Implications for public health interventions for rabies control.
Article in PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Frequency and distribution of neglected tropical diseases in Mozambique: a systematic review.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2019Pooled it
- Time Series and Pattern of Dog Bites and Rabies in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, 2009-2019: A Call for Inter-Sectoral Collaboration in the Fight Against Rabies.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Review
- Human rabies exposure and associated risk factors in North-West Ethiopia.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Epidemiological characteristics and surveillance of animal bite injuries, in Kerman city, Iran.Journal of education and health promotion · 2024Article
- Prevalence of malaria and dengue co-infections among febrile patients during dengue transmission season in Kassala, eastern Sudan.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Article
- Modelling modifiable factors associated with the probability of human rabies deaths among self-reported victims of dog bites in Abuja, Nigeria.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Risk factors associated with rabies incidence in rabies endemic areas in West Kalimantan.Germs · 2022Article
- Rabies Virus Seroprevalence among Dogs in Limpopo National Park and the Phylogenetic Analyses of Rabies Viruses in Mozambique.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, practices (KAP) and control of rabies among community households and health practitioners at the human-wildlife interface in Limpopo National Park, Massingir District, Mozambique.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Article
- Animal bites and post-exposure prophylaxis in Central-West Tunisia: a 15-year surveillance data.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Article
- Clinical aspects of human rabies in the state of Ceará, Brazil: an overview of 63 cases.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2021Article
- Epidemiological study on animal bite cases referred to Haji Daii health Center in Kermanshah province, Iran during 2013-2017.BMC public health · 2020Article
- [Research on Healthy Neighborhood Evaluation System Based on the Combined Perspectives of Urban Planning and Public Health].Feng jing yuan lin = Landscape architecture · 2020Article
- Article
- A dog bite study in a dog rabies-affected area in South Africa.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Healthcare utilization, provisioning of post-exposure prophylaxis, and estimation of human rabies burden in Madagascar.Vaccine · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundIn Mozambique, the majority of rabies outbreaks are unreported and data on the epidemiological features of human rabies and animal bites are scarce. An outbreak of human rabies in adjacent Maputo and Matola cities in 2014 prompted us to investigate the epidemiology, clinical features and risk factors of human rabies and animal bites in the two cities. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsWe reviewed cases of human rabies and animal bites from April to July 2014, and carried out a community investigation in July and August in the neighborhoods where cases of human rabies resided. This investigation included collection of clinical, demographic and epidemiological information and a case control study to investigate the risk factors associated with human rabies. Fourteen cases of human rabies were detected in Maputo (n = 10) and Matola (n = 3) cities and neighbouring Boane district (n = 1) between April and August 2014, all of whom had been admitted to hospital. All had a recent history of dog bite. Of the 14 rabid dogs, only one had been immunized. 819 cases of animal bites were registered, of which 64.6% (529/819) were from Maputo City. Dogs were responsible for 97.8% (801/819) of all animal bites, but only 27.0% (126/467) were immunized. Factors significantly associated with human rabies were: age <15 years (p = 0.05), bite by stray dog (p = 0.002), deep wound (p = 0.02), bite in the head (p = 0.001), bite by unimmunized dog (p = 0.01), no use of soap and water (p = 0.001), and no post-exposure prophylaxis (p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Implementation of control measures for rabies is poor in Maputo and Matola cities, where cases of human rabies were strongly associated with bites by stray and unvaccinated dogs and irregular implementation of post-exposure measures.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.