Spatio-temporal epidemiology of animal and human rabies in northern South Africa between 1998 and 2017.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Kgaogelo Mogano, Toru Suzuki, Debrah Mohale, Baby Phahladira, Ernest Ngoepe, Yusuke Kamata, George Chirima, Claude Sabeta, Kohei Makita
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Laplace
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010464; https://doaj.org/article/d7f0f25c78f64f10a77194b338ff07ae

Background Rabies is a fatal zoonotic disease that is maintained in domestic dogs and wildlife populations in the Republic of South Africa. A retrospective study was conducted to improve understanding of the dynamics of rabies in humans, domestic dogs, and wildlife species, in relation to the ecolog...