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Complete genome and molecular epidemiological data infer the maintenance of rabies among kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) in Namibia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Scott Terence P, Fischer Melina, Khaiseb Siegfried, Freuling Conrad, Höper Dirk, Hoffmann Bernd, Markotter Wanda, Müller Thomas, Nel Louis H
Abstract excerpt
Rabies in kudu is unique to Namibia and two major peaks in the epizootic have occurred since it was first noted in 1977. Due to the large numbers of kudu that were affected, it was suspected that horizontal transmission of rabies occurs among kudu and that rabies was being maintained independently within the Namibian kudu population - separate from canid cycles, despite geographic overlap. In this study, it was...
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