Population Dynamics of Owned, Free-Roaming Dogs: Implications for Rabies Control. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BACKGROUND:Rabies is a serious yet neglected public health threat in resource-limited communities in Africa, where the virus is maintained in populations of owned, free-roaming domestic dogs.
Anne Conan +5 more
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Landscape attributes governing local transmission of an endemic zoonosis: rabies virus in domestic dogs [PDF]
, 2018 Landscape heterogeneity plays an important role in disease spread and persistence, but quantifying landscape influences and their scale dependence is challenging.
Biek, Roman +7 more
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Development of Dog Vaccination Strategies to Maintain Herd Immunity against Rabies
Viruses, 2022 Human rabies can be prevented through mass dog vaccination campaigns; however, in rabies endemic countries, pulsed central point campaigns do not always achieve the recommended coverage of 70%.
Ahmed Lugelo +8 more
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Cost-estimate and proposal for a development impact bond for canine rabies elimination by mass vaccination in Chad [PDF]
, 2017 Close to 69,000 humans die of rabies each year, most of them in Africa and Asia. Clinical rabies can be prevented by post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP). However, PEP is commonly not available or not affordable in developing countries.
Alfaroukh, Idriss Oumar +10 more
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Viruses, 2022 Rabies is a deadly viral disease present mainly in low-income countries of Africa and Asia. Dogs are the main reservoir and the source of human deaths. Mass vaccination campaigns of dogs are pivotal to achieve rabies elimination. The monitoring of the immune response of the dog population is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of these campaigns ...
Marine Wasniewski +5 more
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Awareness of rabies and response to dog bites in a Bangladesh community [PDF]
, 2016 Community awareness regarding rabies and treatment seeking behaviours are critical both for the prevention and control of the disease in human and animals.
Ahmed, Be-Nazir +8 more
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Why has canine rabies remained endemic in the Kilosa district of Tanzania? Lessons learnt and the way forward [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Domestic dogs are the main targets for rabies control as they are the principal reservoir for transmission of the rabies virus to humans and other domestic animals.
M. J. Kipanyula
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Effectiveness of Mass Rabies Dog Vaccination Campaign in Communes V and VI of the Bamako-Mali, District [PDF]
International Journal of Animal Science and Technology, 2019 Canine rabies remains an important public health problem in Africa. Mass vaccination of dogs is the recommended method for the control and elimination of rabies. We report the second free mass vaccination campaign of the dog in the communes V and VI of the district of Bamako that took place in September 2014.
Ibrahim Sow +6 more
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Successful strategies implemented towards the elimination of canine rabies in the Western Hemisphere [PDF]
, 2017 Almost all cases of human rabies result from dog bites, making the elimination of canine rabies a global priority. During recent decades, many countries in the Western Hemisphere have carried out large-scale dog vaccination campaigns, controlled their ...
Damon, Inger +9 more
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Towards elimination of dog-mediated human rabies: experiences from implementing a large-scale demonstration project in Southern Tanzania [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Abela-Ridder, Bernadette +21 more
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