One Health approach to cost-effective rabies control in India

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 51, 2016, Pages 14574-14581

  Fitzpatrick, Meagan C ^a,b   Shah, Hiral A ^c   Pandey, Abhishek ^a   Bilinski, Alyssa M ^d   Kakkar, Manish ^c   Clark, Andrew D ^e   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a   Abbas, Syed Shahid ^c,f   Galvani, Alison P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Mathematical modeling; Rabies; Sterilization; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DOG BITE; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MALE STERILIZATION; NONHUMAN; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; STRAY DOG; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; ONE HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; ONE HEALTH; RABIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VACCINATION;

EID: 85006494462     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604975113     Document Type: Article

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