Emergency oral rabies vaccination of foxes in Italy in 2009-2010: Identification of residual rabies foci at higher altitudes in the Alps

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 591-598

  Mulatti, P ^a   MUller T ^b   Bonfanti, L ^a   Marangon, S ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rabies (animal); spatial analysis; vaccination; veterinary epidemiology

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ALTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOX; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; ITALY; NONHUMAN; RABIES; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VACCINATION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; EMERGENCIES; FOXES; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES;

EID: 84858057947     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811001282     Document Type: Review

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