“As long as the patient tells you it was a dog that bit him, why do you need to know more?” A qualitative study of how healthcare workers apply clinical guidelines to treat dog bite injuries in selected hospitals in Uganda

• Stevens Kisaka ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bmkstevens@gmail.com

  Affiliations University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Nairobi, Kenya, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-316X

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• Fredrick E. Makumbi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Samuel Majalija,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Alexander Kagaha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• S. M. Thumbi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Nairobi, Kenya, Rabies Free Africa, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Paul G Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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