Guidelines

Guidelines relating to pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis

• HPA Centre for Infections (CfI) Clinical Rabies Service (PDF, 502 KB) Revised 22 May 2009
• Rabies Immunoglobulin Calculator May 2009 (Excel Spreadsheet, 36 KB) 27 May 2009
• Rabies vaccine Ig administration advice leaflet (PDF, 1.4 MB)  Revised 27 May 2009
• Rabies Country Risk Table, February 2009 (PDF, 71 KB)
• Revised WHO position paper on rabies vaccines (December 2007) (pdf file: external link)
• Memorandum on Rabies - Prevention and Control (pdf file: external link)
• The Public Health Management of a Suspected Case of Human Rabies A Standard Operating Procedure for Communication Action - 31/11/2004 (PDF, 687 KB)
  
  
• Rabies vaccination and interpretation of rabies serology - Advice for bat workers and their GPs (PDF, 142 KB)
  
  
• Immunisation against Infectious Disease (the Green book) – rabies (PDF, 81 KB)

Useful articles on management of human rabies

Editorial: Recovery from Rabies. Jackson AC. New England J Med 2005;352:2549-50  (external link)

Survival after treatment of rabies with induction of coma  Willoughby RE et al. New England J Med. 2005;352:2508-14 (external link)

Medical College of Wisconsin rabies treatment protocols  (external link)

Wisconsin rabies treatment protocol (PDF, 87 KB)

Management of rabies in humans Jackson AC et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2003;36:60-3 (external link)

Human rabies: a disease of complex neuropathogenetic mechanisms and diagnostic challenges Hemachuda T et al. The Lancet Neurology 2002;1:101-9 (external link, requires free login)

Paralytic rabies after a two-week holiday in India Solomon T et al. British Med J. 2005;331:501-3 (external link)