An overview of anthropogenic actions as drivers for emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases

SS Tazerji, R Nardini, M Safdar, AA Shehata… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Population growth and industrialization have led to a race for greater food and supply
productivity. As a result, the occupation and population of forest areas, contact with wildlife …

Are children and dogs best friends? A scoping review to explore the positive and negative effects of child-dog interactions

CSE Giraudet, K Liu, AG McElligott, M Cobb - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Personal wellbeing is greatly influenced by our childhood and adolescence, and the
relationships formed during those phases of our development. The human-dog bond …

Mixed methods to evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) towards rabies in central and remote communities of Moramanga district, Madagascar

C Leblanc, D Kassié, M Ranaivoharimina… - PLoS Neglected …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Control of dog-mediated rabies relies on raising awareness, access to post-exposure
prophylaxis (PEP) and mass dog vaccination. To assess rabies awareness in Moramanga …

Determinants of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis drop-out in the region of San-Pedro, Côte d'Ivoire

RD N'Guessan, K Heitz-Tokpa… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Despite the fact that death from rabies is 100% preventable with a course of post-exposure
prophylaxis (PEP) treatment, canine rabies still causes about 59,000 human deaths …

Owned and free-roaming dogs in the North West of Tunisia: estimation, characteristics and application for the control of dog rabies

S Kalthoum, CB Salah, H Rzeigui, R Gharbi, K Guesmi… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Understanding the structure of dog population and the evaluation of the accessibility of dogs
to vaccination is essential to succeed in the fight against dog rabies and to adapt the …

“When a dog bites someone”: Community and service provider dynamics influencing access to integrated bite case management in Chad

A Madjadinan, N Mbaipago, NM Sougou… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study aims to identify factors on the community, the human health and the animal health
provider level that determine access to Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) and animal rabies …

Development, feasibility and potential effectiveness of community-based continuous mass dog vaccination delivery strategies: lessons for optimization and replication

CT Duamor, K Hampson, F Lankester… - PLoS Neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Dog vaccination can eliminate rabies in dogs, but annual delivery strategies do
not sustain vaccination coverage between campaigns. We describe the development of a …

Risk factors for spotted fever group rickettsioses in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

TR Bowhay, MP Rubach, ÂJF Mendes… - Open forum …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Knowledge gaps exist on risk factors for spotted fever group rickettsioses
(SFGR) in sub-Saharan Africa. We sought to identify SFGR risk factors in Kilimanjaro …

Participation in mass dog vaccination campaigns in Tanzania: Benefits of community engagement

CT Duamor, F Lankester, E Mpolya… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Canine rabies causes about 59,000 human deaths each year globally but the
disease can be eliminated by sustaining sufficient dog vaccination coverage over several …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge of rabies among rural community in Chengalpet district, India

K Bharani, K Ramachandran, V Kommisetty… - …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The objective of the present study is to assess the knowledge about rabies among the
general population of a rural area in Chengalpattu district of Tamilnadu. A cross-sectional …