Achieving population-level immunity to rabies in free-roaming dogs in Africa and Asia.

• Main Authors: Michelle K Morters (Author), Trevelyan J McKinley (Author), Daniel L Horton (Author), Sarah Cleaveland (Author), Johan P Schoeman (Author), Olivier Restif (Author), Helen R Whay (Author), Amelia Goddard (Author), Anthony R Fooks (Author), I Made Damriyasa (Author), James L N Wood (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Canine rabies can be effectively controlled by vaccination with readily available, high-quality vaccines. These vaccines should provide protection from challenge in healthy dogs, for the claimed period, for duration of immunity, which is often two or three years. It has been suggested that, in free-...