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Article: Enzootic rabies elimination from dogs and reemergence in wild terrestrial carnivores, United States.(RESEARCH)(Report)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Rabies virus (RV) is the prototype member of the genus Lyssavirus, which causes acute encephalomyelitis in mammals, including humans, throughout the world. The disease is independently maintained by several species of mammals within the orders Carnivora and Chiroptera (1). Intraspecies RV transmission maintains the disease within geographically discrete (2,3) areas by distinctive virus variants and lineages, which can be identified either by panels of monoclonal antibodies or by genetic analysis (4,5). Interspecies transmission of rabies often results in ecological bottlenecks and epidemiologic dead ends (1,4,6). However, during rabies epizootics or long-term enzootics, ...
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