Reassessing global historical ℛ ₀ estimates of canine rabies

Abstract excerpt

Rabies spread by domestic dogs continues to cause tens of thousands of human deaths every year in low- and middle-income countries. Nevertheless rabies is often neglected, perhaps because it has already been eliminated from high-income countries through dog vaccination. Estimates of canine rabies’s intrinsic reproductive number ( ℛ 0 ), a metric of disease spread, from a wide range of times and locations are rela...

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• Human-Animal Interaction Studies
• Microbial infections and disease research
• Rabies epidemiology and control
• Virology and Viral Diseases
• Zoonotic diseases and public health

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Literature Corpus work

58266097-05fa-5e73-b9e4-80de2940b1ee

DOI

10.1101/2024.04.11.589097