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Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess dog biting and associated demographic and socioeconomic risk factors in Curitiba, the eighth-largest Brazilian city with approximately 1.87 million people, based on the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) rabies reports between January\/2010 and December\/2015. The total of 45,392 PEP reports corresponded to an average annual incidence of 4.17\/1000 habitants, mainly affecting white (79.9%, 4.38\/1000 population), males (53.1%, 4.81\/1000 population), and children aged 0\u20139 years (20.1%, 6.9\/1000 population), with severe accidents associated with older victims (p &lt; 0.001) and mainly caused by dogs known to the victims. An increase of USD 100.00 in the median neighborhood income was associated with a 4.9% (95% CI: 3.8\u20136.1; p &lt; 0.001) reduction in dog bites. In summary, dog biting occurrence was associated with victims\u2019 low income, gender, race\/color, and age; severe accidents were associated with elderly victims. 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