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This model in mice could be used to develop an additional post-exposure local treatment of rabies infection in man, by infiltrating local nerves or ganglions with axonal flow inhibitors, with the advantage that it would not interfere with subsequent vaccination as is the case with the administration of hyperimmune serum or immunoglobulin.
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