Estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies.

• Main Authors: Katie Hampson (Author), Laurent Coudeville (Author), Tiziana Lembo (Author), Maganga Sambo (Author), Alexia Kieffer (Author), Michaël Attlan (Author), Jacques Barrat (Author), Jesse D Blanton (Author), Deborah J Briggs (Author), Sarah Cleaveland (Author), Peter Costa (Author), Conrad M Freuling (Author), Elly Hiby (Author), Lea Knopf (Author), Fernando Leanes (Author), François-Xavier Meslin (Author), Artem Metlin (Author), Mary Elizabeth Miranda (Author), Thomas Müller (Author), Louis H Nel (Author), Sergio Recuenco (Author), Charles E Rupprecht (Author), Carolin Schumacher (Author), Louise Taylor (Author), Marco Antonio Natal Vigilato (Author), Jakob Zinsstag (Author), Jonathan Dushoff (Author), Global Alliance for Rabies Control Partners for Rabies Prevention (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

BACKGROUND:Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies circulating in domestic dog populations, globally and on a country-by-country basis, allowing an objective assessment of how muc...