Free-Roaming Dog Population Estimation and Status of the Dog Population Management and Rabies Control Program in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Tenzin, Tenzin ^a,b   Ahmed, Rubaiya ^c   Debnath, Nitish C ^a   Ahmed, Garba ^a   Yamage, Mat ^a  

^a Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases   (Bangladesh)

^b National Centre for Animal Health   (Bhutan)

^c Obhoyaronno Bangladesh Animal Welfare Foundation   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; RABIES VACCINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; DOG; DOG BITE; FEMALE; HERD IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RABIES; SKIN DEFECT; VACCINATION; ANIMAL; DOG DISEASES; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS IMMUNIZATION; POPULATION DENSITY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS VACCINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RABIES; RABIES VACCINES;

EID: 84930674301     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003784     Document Type: Article

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