Three-Year Experience with 4-Site Intradermal Booster Vaccination with Rabies Vaccine for Postexposure Prophylaxis

  • Tantawichien, Terapong
  • Tantawichien, Thanphet
  • Supit, Chalida
  • Khawplod, Pakamatz
  • Sitprija, Visith
Clinical Infectious Diseases 33(12):p 2085-2087, December 15, 2001. | DOI: 10.1086/338155

For booster vaccination of previously immunized persons with potential exposure to rabies, the World Health Organization recommends 2 doses of cell-culture vaccine administered intramuscularly or intradermally on days 0 and 3. We believe that four 0.1-mL intradermal booster doses given on a single day could be used at no risk to the recipient. We studied use of a single booster vaccination on day 0 followed by four 0.1-mL intradermal doses of cell-culture rabies vaccines, and we determined that this is a safe, convenient, and economical regimen for postexposure treatment of previously vaccinated individuals.

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