Spatio-temporal dynamics of rabies and habitat suitability of the common marmoset Callithrix jacchus in Brazil.

• Main Authors: Julio A Benavides (Author), Ram K Raghavan (Author), Vanner Boere (Author), Silene Rocha (Author), Marcelo Y Wada (Author), Alexander Vargas (Author), Fernanda Voietta (Author), Ita de Oliveira E Silva (Author), Silvana Leal (Author), Alene de Castro (Author), Maria de Fatima Arruda (Author), A Townsend Peterson (Author), Jane Megid (Author), Maria Luiza Carrieri (Author), Ivanete Kotait (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rabies transmitted by wildlife is now the main source of human rabies in the Americas. The common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, is considered a reservoir of rabies causing sporadic and unpredictable human deaths in Brazil, but the extent of the spillover risk to humans remains unknown. In this study...