The importance of dog population contact network structures in rabies transmission.

• Main Authors: Mirjam Laager (Author), Céline Mbilo (Author), Enos Abdelaziz Madaye (Author), Abakar Naminou (Author), Monique Léchenne (Author), Aurélie Tschopp (Author), Service Kemdongarti Naïssengar (Author), Timo Smieszek (Author), Jakob Zinsstag (Author), Nakul Chitnis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Canine rabies transmission was interrupted in N'Djaména, Chad, following two mass vaccination campaigns. However, after nine months cases resurged with re-establishment of endemic rabies transmission to pre-intervention levels. Previous analyses investigated district level spatial heterogeneit...