Table 2. Treatment for injured patients seeking care for rabies postexposure prophylaxis, by animal rabies status, Marseille, France, 1994–2005*.

Patient receipt of PEP*	Animal status
	1994–2000, no. (%)				2001–2005, no. (%)
	Unknown†	Rabid‡	Not rabid§		Unknown†	Rabid‡	Not rabid§
Total	1,916 (61.5)	21 (0.6)	1,185 (37.9)		911 (73.2)	5 (0.4)	329 (26.4)
Unknown	0	0	0		4 (0.5)	0	0
None	761 (39.7)	1 (4.8)	1,048 (88.4)		34 (3.7)	0	158 (48.0)
Treatment completed	1,000 (52.2)	20 (95.2)	19 (1.6)		811 (89.0)	5 (100)	45 (13.7)
Treatment stopped	42 (2.2)	0	117 (9.9)		3 (0.3)	0	126 (38.3)
Lost to follow-up	113 (5.9)	0	1 (0.1)		59 (6.5)	0	0
RIG	2 (0.2)	20 (95.2)	1 (0.1)		29 (3.2)	0	14 (4.3)

*PEP, postexposure prophylaxis; RIG, rabies immunoglobulin (% as proportion of treatments including rabies PEP). 1994–2000, n = 3,122; 2001–2005, 
n = 1,245.
†Animal not available for observation by a veterinarian (including cases where animal was available for observation by its owner).
‡Animal proven to be rabid by laboratory testing or considered rabid upon clinical criteria.
§Animal proven to be not rabid by laboratory testing or after 2 weeks of observation by a veterinarian.