Management and modeling approaches for controlling raccoon rabies: The road to elimination

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Elmore, Stacey A ^a   Chipman, Richard B ^b   Slate, Dennis ^b   Huyvaert, Kathryn P ^c   VerCauteren, Kurt C ^a   Gilbert, Amy T ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RABIES VACCINE;

BIRTH CONTROL; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE CLEARANCE; DOG BITE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RABIES; RACCOON DOG; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RACCOON; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE ERADICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RABIES; RACCOONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85017000628     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005249     Document Type: Review

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