Safety and immunogenicity of rabies vaccine as 4 - dose Essen Intramuscular regimen for post exposure prophylaxis: A non - randomized, comparative controlled study.

: World Health Organization has recommended that in healthy persons with category III exposures, who receive wound care and rabies immunoglobulin infiltration, a vaccine regimen consisting of 4 doses administered intramuscularly on days 0, 3, 7, and 14 can be used as an alternative to the 5-dose intramuscular regimen.: To assess the clinical safety and immunogenicity of rabies vaccine administered as 4-dose Essen intramuscular regimen for post-exposure prophylaxis.: A non-randomized, comparative, controlled study was conducted at the anti-rabies clinic, KIMS Hospital and Research Center, Bangalore, India.