Jethani Sumit, Singh Sunil Kumar, Kamble Bhushan Dattatray, Dobhal Veena, Singh Saudan, Jha Diwakar, Ahlawat Pooja
North DMC Medical College & Hindu Rao Hospital, Delhi, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bibinagar, Hyderabad, Telengana, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2022 Feb;11(2):728-732. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1395_21. Epub 2022 Feb 16.
Animal bites to humans are a public health problem. Rabies is caused by rhabdovirus which is present in the saliva of rabid animals like dogs, cats, monkeys, and wild animals like fox and jackals.
To find the epidemiological pattern and trend analysis of animal bite cases registered in Anti-rabies clinic of tertiary care hospital of Delhi.
A retrospective cross-sectional study was planned in Anti-rabies clinic of Hindu Rao Hospital, Delhi, and data from January 2010 to December 2018 was taken. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 21.0.
After interpretation of data from 2010 to 2018, it was found that maximum number of animal bite cases belonged to category 3 (91.0%) and majority (93.6%) were due to dog bite. On analysis of year and season wise trend, it was found that the frequency of cases showed a rising trend from the year 2010, with highest number of cases in the year 2014, while animal bite cases were maximum with arrival of spring season (month of April).
This study concludes that animal bite cases are rising over the years and dog bites are most common animal bite cases in Delhi. Most of the animal bite cases occurred during spring season followed by autumn season of the year. So, there is dire need of strengthening the preventive measures for controlling animal bites in the study area.
动物咬伤人类是一个公共卫生问题。狂犬病由弹状病毒引起，该病毒存在于狂犬病动物的唾液中，如狗、猫、猴子以及狐狸和豺狼等野生动物。
了解德里三级护理医院抗狂犬病诊所登记的动物咬伤病例的流行病学模式和趋势分析。
计划在德里印度教饶医院抗狂犬病诊所进行一项回顾性横断面研究，并收集2010年1月至2018年12月的数据。数据采用SPSS 21.0软件进行分析。
对2010年至2018年的数据进行解读后发现，动物咬伤病例中3类咬伤最多（91.0%），且大多数（93.6%）是由狗咬伤所致。对年份和季节趋势进行分析后发现，病例数从2010年开始呈上升趋势，2014年病例数最多，而动物咬伤病例在春季（4月）到来时最多。
本研究得出结论，多年来动物咬伤病例呈上升趋势，狗咬伤是德里最常见的动物咬伤病例。大多数动物咬伤病例发生在春季，其次是秋季。因此，迫切需要加强研究区域内控制动物咬伤的预防措施。
