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Hello Doctor, 3 hour ago (9 PM, 16-April-2018) I was walking near my Office and I saw a stray dog which lives in and around the office premise. The dog behaves normally and is usually silent. I wanted to pat him, and went near him and tried to pat, but he didn't like it it seems and it barked at me, kind of like trying to make me go away. It felt less likely like a bite. When he barked, my left ring finger knuckle hit his teeth and it opened/lifted up very tiny bit of my skin in the knuckle which is about the size of a single piece of sand particle. I was not bleeding heavily, but I could see a small red dot (blood). After 2-3 minutes, I thoroughly washed my hands with Dettol hand wash gel. I am little paranoid about being infected. The area where the teeth scratched is now fine and I don?t have any visible marks or scratches whatsoever there. And I don't feel any weird health symptoms or irregularities. But ever she slightly I am feeling a burning sensation at the spot. Do I need a TT injection or Rabies injection for this matter?
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Nothing needed.
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Yes as a safer side you should take Rabies vaccine.
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Ideallly better to take both course of injections.
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If you have been bitten you need to take rabies vaccine and if not bitten you do not have to take TT or rabies vaccine
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