A wild life officer comes to clinic for recieving prophylactic vaccine against rabies. How many doses of HDCV is needed for pre exposure prophylaxis of Rabies?
High-Yield Explanation
Prophylaxis for rabies consist of administration of HDCV vaccine in a dose of either 1ml i.m/ 0.1ml intradermally on days 0, 7 and 28. One month after the third injection serum titers of antibodies are checked and if the titre is less than 0.5 IU/ml booster doses should be administered until antibodies becomes demonstratable.