Eliminating Rabies in Tanzania? Local Understandings and Responses to Mass Dog Vaccination in Kilombero and Ulanga Districts

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Bardosh, Kevin ^a,b   Sambo, Maganga ^c   Sikana, Lwitiko ^c   Hampson, Katie ^d   Welburn, Susan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DOG; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PET ANIMAL; PROGRAM FEASIBILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RABIES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TANZANIA; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE ERADICATION; DOG DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; VETERINARY;

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE ERADICATION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS VACCINATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84903456592     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002935     Document Type: Article

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