Table 5.
Nature of the wound and incubation period (n = 256) of human rabies deceased in Bangladesh, 2013–2015 identified through VA.
| Variable | Category | Incubation period (days) |
Total n (%) | P-value∗ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–30 | 31–60 | 61–90 | 90 -Above | ||||
| Nature of exposure | Bite | 75 (31.91) | 65 (27.66) | 50 (21.28) | 45 (19.15) | 235 (91.80) | 0.8762 |
| Scratch | 7 (33.33) | 6 (28.57) | 3 (14.29) | 5 (23.81) | 21 (8.20) | ||
| Site of wound | Body | 5 (33.33) | 4 (26.67) | 3 (20.00) | 3 (20.00) | 15 (5.86) | 0.0019 |
| Face | 15 (71.43) | 4 (19.05) | 2 (9.52) | 0 (0.00) | 21 (8.20) | ||
| Hand | 15 (40.54) | 11 (29.73) | 6 (16.22) | 5 (13.51) | 37 (14.45) | ||
| Head | 5 (83.33) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (16.67) | 0 (0.00) | 6 (2.34) | ||
| Limbs | 40 (22.99) | 52 (29.89) | 40 (22.99) | 42 (24.14) | 174 (67.97) | ||
| Neck | 2 (66.67) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (33.33) | 0 (0.00) | 3 (1.17) | ||
| Category of wound | Cat-II | 6 (31.58) | 5 (26.32) | 5 (26.32) | 3 (15.79) | 19 (7.42) | 0.9242 |
| Cat-III | 76 (32.07) | 66 (27.85) | 48 (20.25) | 47 (19.83) | 237 (92.58) | ||
| Number of wound | Multiple | 45 (35.43) | 35 (27.56) | 25 (19.69) | 22 (17.32) | 127 (49.61) | 0.6439 |
| Single | 37 (28.68) | 36 (27.91) | 28 (21.71) | 28 (21.71) | 129 (50.39) | ||
| Severity of wound |
Mild | 3 (25.00) | 4 (33.33) | 4 (33.33) | 1 (8.33) | 12 (4.69) | 0.7690 |
| Moderate | 17 (26.98) | 19 (30.16) | 14 (22.22) | 13 (20.63) | 63 (24.61) | ||
| Severe |
62 (34.25) |
48 (26.52) |
35 (19.34) |
36 (19.89) |
181 (70.70) |
||
| Total | 82 | 71 | 53 | 50 | 256 | ||
∗
Multiple contingency analysis with α - level set as 0.05.