Volume 21, Number 4—April 2015
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis
Animal-Associated Exposure to Rabies Virus among Travelers, 1997–2012
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Figure 2. Number of patients requiring rabies postexposure prophylaxis for animal-related exposure, by exposure species and by year and line of best fit for proportion of all GeoSentinel records accounted for by animal-related exposure requiring postexposure prophylaxis, 2003–2012. Limited to patients treated at GeoSentinel sites that were active contributors for the entire listed period. NHP, nonhuman primate. *Linear regression was used to calculate a line of best fit of y = 0.0015x + 0.006.
1Additional members of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network who contributed data are listed at the end of this article.
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