Elimination of dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030: Needs assessment and alternatives for progress based on dog vaccination

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Volumn 4, Issue FEB, 2017, Pages

  Wallace, Ryan M ^a   Undurraga, Eduardo A ^a   Blanton, Jesse D ^a   Cleaton, Julie ^a   Franka, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dog vaccination; Global health; Infectious disease; One health; Population management; Rabies control and prevention; Rabies elimination; Zoonotic diseases

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020384089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22971769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00009     Document Type: Article

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