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A perspective on lyssavirus emergence and perpetuationCharles E Rupprecht
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Curr Opin Virol 1:662-70. 2011....
Oral vaccination of dogs with recombinant rabies virus vaccinesCharles E Rupprecht
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Rabies Unit, Mailstop G 33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 111:101-5. 2005....
Control and prevention of rabies in animals: paradigm shiftsC E Rupprecht
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Dev Biol (Basel) 125:103-11. 2006..Given these challenges, new paradigm shifts are eagerly anticipated as additional biotechnological applications (including contraceptives and anticoagulants) are developed to deal with domestic animals and wildlife...
Oral vaccination of wildlife against rabies: opportunities and challenges in prevention and controlC E Rupprecht
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Dev Biol (Basel) 119:173-84. 2004..Newer approaches in biotechnology may be envisaged some day for eventual extension to bats, as well as more widespread application to global canine rabies remediation in developing countries...
Clinical practice. Prophylaxis against rabiesCharles E Rupprecht
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
N Engl J Med 351:2626-35. 2004
Current and future trends in the prevention, treatment and control of rabiesCharles E Rupprecht
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 4:1021-38. 2006....
Evidence for a 4-dose vaccine schedule for human rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in previously non-vaccinated individualsCharles E Rupprecht
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, 1600 Clifton Road N E, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:7141-8. 2009....
Can rabies be eradicated?C E Rupprecht
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Dev Biol (Basel) 131:95-121. 2008....
Use of a reduced (4-dose) vaccine schedule for postexposure prophylaxis to prevent human rabies: recommendations of the advisory committee on immunization practicesCharles E Rupprecht
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases proposed, CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 59:1-9. 2010..Prompt rabies PEP combining wound care, infiltration of RIG into and around the wound, and multiple doses of rabies cell-culture vaccine continue to be highly effective in preventing human rabies...
Rabies re-examinedCharles E Rupprecht
Rabies Section, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 2:327-43. 2002..Nevertheless, despite much technical progress in the past century, rabies is a disease of neglect and presents a modern public-health conundrum...
Estimating the risk of rabies transmission to humans in the U.S.: a Delphi analysisSagar A Vaidya
Combined Internal Medicine Pediatrics Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10128, USA
BMC Public Health 10:278. 2010..Controlled studies on rabies are clearly not possible. Thus, the limited data on risk has led to the frequent administration of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), often in inappropriate circumstances...
Ferret badger rabies origin and its revisited importance as potential source of rabies transmission in Southeast ChinaYe Liu
Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Veterinary Research Institute, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, 1068 Qinglong Road, Changchun 130062, China
BMC Infect Dis 10:234. 2010....
Epidemiological investigations of human rabies in ChinaMiao Song
State Key Laboratory for Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100052, PR China
BMC Infect Dis 9:210. 2009..Moreover, the status of rabies infection and vaccination in dogs, and prophylaxis of humans after rabies exposure were analyzed...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2005Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:1897-911. 2006..8%, and rabies in domestic animals decreased 37.5%. One case of human rabies was reported from Mississippi during 2005. This case was submitted by the state to the CDC's unexplained deaths project and diagnosed as rabies retrospectively...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2004John W Krebs
Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 227:1912-25. 2005..In Wisconsin, a teenager contracted rabies from a bat bite and became the first known person to survive rabies despite not having received rabies vaccine prior to symptom onset...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2006Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 231:540-56. 2007..The cases in Indiana and Texas were attributed to bat rabies virus variants, whereas the case in California was attributed to an exposure to a dog in the Philippines...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2007Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 233:884-97. 2008..One human rabies case was reported from Minnesota during 2007. Although typing of the rabies virus variant in this case was not possible, an investigation of this case indicated a bat as the most likely source of exposure...
Enzootic rabies elimination from dogs and reemergence in wild terrestrial carnivores, United StatesAndres Velasco-Villa
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1849-54. 2008....
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2009Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 237:646-57. 2010..The Indiana and Michigan cases were associated with bat rabies virus variants. The human rabies case in Virginia was associated with a canine rabies virus variant acquired during the patient's travel to India...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2003John W Krebs
Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 225:1837-49. 2004..The California and Puerto Rico cases were the result of infections with bat and dog/mongoose rabies virus variants, respectively, and each patient had a history of a bite...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2011Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 241:712-22. 2012..Three cases reported from Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York were determined to be a result of canine rabies virus variants acquired outside the United States...
Molecular diversity of rabies viruses associated with bats in Mexico and other countries of the AmericasAndres Velasco-Villa
Rabies Unit, Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, Mail Stop G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 44:1697-710. 2006..Genetic typing of rabies viruses allowed us to distinguish trends of disease dissemination and to address, in a preliminary fashion, aspects of the complex evolution of rabies viruses in different host-reservoir species...
Molecular inferences suggest multiple host shifts of rabies viruses from bats to mesocarnivores in Arizona during 2001-2009Ivan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS Pathog 8:e1002786. 2012..Roles of the amino acid changes, detected in our study, require additional investigations, using reverse genetics and other approaches...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2008Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 235:676-89. 2009..The case in Missouri was attributed to a rabies virus variant associated with eastern pipistrelle and silver-haired bats...
Reassortant group A rotavirus from straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum)Mathew D Esona
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1844-52. 2010..Results suggest that several reassortment events have occurred between human, animal, and bat rotaviruses. Several additional rotavirus strains were detected in bats...
Possible emergence of West Caucasian bat virus in AfricaIvan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1887-9. 2008..Seropositive bats were detected in 4 of 5 locations sampled across the country. These findings provide evidence that WCBV, originally isolated in Europe, may emerge in other continents...
New rabies virus variant in Mexican immigrantAndres Velasco-Villa
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1906-8. 2008..Enhanced surveillance is needed to elucidate likely reservoirs...
Host phylogeny constrains cross-species emergence and establishment of rabies virus in batsDaniel G Streicker
Rabies Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Science 329:676-9. 2010..Evolutionary constraints on viral host range indicate that host species barriers may trump the intrinsic mutability of RNA viruses in determining the fate of emerging host-virus interactions...
Vaccination of small Asian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) against rabiesJesse D Blanton
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia, 30333, USA
J Wildl Dis 42:663-6. 2006..V-RG vaccine, additional investigations will be necessary to determine the optimal dose and duration of vaccination, as well as incorporation of the SPBNGA-S vaccine into edible bait...
Oral immunization of raccoons and skunks with a canine adenovirus recombinant rabies vaccineHeather Henderson
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:7194-7. 2009..The results of this preliminary study suggest that CAV2-RVG stimulates protective immunity against rabies in raccoons and skunks...
Evaluation of a new serological technique for detecting rabies virus antibodies following vaccinationXiaoyue Ma
Rabies Program, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
Vaccine 30:5358-62. 2012..The sensitivity and specificity for field animal samples was 96% and 95%, respectively. The preliminary results from this study appear promising and demonstrate a higher sensitivity than traditional ELISA methods...
Emerging pattern of rabies deaths and increased viral infectivitySharon L Messenger
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:151-4. 2003..The preponderance of rabies deaths connected with the two uncommon L. noctivagans and P. subflavus bat rabies viruses is best explained by their evolution of increased viral infectivity...
Commerson's leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros commersoni) is the likely reservoir of Shimoni bat virusIvan V Kuzmin
Rabies Program, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 11:1465-70. 2011..These findings suggest that H. commersoni is the host species of SHIBV. Additional surveillance is needed to better understand the ecology of this virus and the potential risks of infection to humans and other mammalian species...
A new phylogenetic lineage of rabies virus associated with western pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus hesperus)Richard Franka
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DVRD VRZB Rabies, G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Gen Virol 87:2309-21. 2006....
Shimoni bat virus, a new representative of the Lyssavirus genusIvan V Kuzmin
Rabies Program, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 149:197-210. 2010..However, the identity values alone are not considered sufficient criteria for demarcation of new species within LBV...
Rabies virus pathogenesis in relationship to intervention with inactivated and attenuated rabies vaccinesRichard Franka
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:7149-55. 2009..Reduced vaccine schedules provided efficacious intervention, regardless of the total number of vaccine doses administered...
Lagos bat virus in KenyaIvan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Bldg 17, MS G 33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:1451-61. 2008..Several large bat roosts were identified in areas of dense human populations, raising public health concerns for the potential of lyssavirus infection...
Development of combined vaccines for rabies and immunocontraceptionXianfu Wu
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rabies Program PRB DVRD CDC, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 27:7202-9. 2009..The recombinant viruses reacted strongly with the serum from a GonaCon-immunized animal. The GnRH-carrying rabies viruses have significant potential in rabies and animal population control...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2001John W Krebs
Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 221:1690-701. 2002..3% (15 to 13). One case of rabies in a human being reported by California during 2001 was the result of infection with a canine variant of the rabies virus acquired outside the United States...
Molecular epizootiology of rabies associated with terrestrial carnivores in MexicoAndres Velasco-Villa
Viral and Rickettsial Zoonosis Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 111:13-27. 2005..Two other skunk foci share a common ancestor with canine rabies and were distributed in northwest Mexico and Yucatan...
Discovery of diverse polyomaviruses in bats and the evolutionary history of the PolyomaviridaeYing Tao
Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Gen Virol 94:738-48. 2013..In summary, this study revealed that bats are important reservoirs of PyVs and that these viruses have a complex evolutionary history...
A spatial model to forecast raccoon rabies emergenceSergio Recuenco
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 12:126-37. 2012..Predicted high susceptibility areas matched historical surveillance data. We discuss model implications to the spatial dynamics and spread of raccoon rabies, and its application for designing more efficient disease control interventions...
Bartonella spp. in bats, KenyaMichael Kosoy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1875-81. 2010..In contrast, E. helvum and Miniopterus spp. bats harbored strains that clustered in several groups. Further investigation is needed to determine whether these agents are responsible for human illnesses in the region...
Bat lyssaviruses (Aravan and Khujand) from Central Asia: phylogenetic relationships according to N, P and G gene sequencesIvan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Cliffton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 97:65-79. 2003..The potential significance of these new lyssaviruses for veterinary and public health should not be underestimated...
Seroconversion following incomplete human rabies postexposure prophylaxisKis Robertson
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Office of Workforce and Career Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States
Vaccine 28:6523-6. 2010..These findings corroborate previous studies that suggest a less than five-dose rabies vaccine regimen elicits adequate immunogenicity against rabies...
Phylogenetic relationships of Irkut and West Caucasian bat viruses within the Lyssavirus genus and suggested quantitative criteria based on the N gene sequence for lyssavirus genotype definitionIvan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Cliffton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 111:28-43. 2005..WCBV is the most divergent of known lyssaviruses with only limited relatedness to genotypes 2 and 3...
Live attenuated rabies virus co-infected with street rabies virus protects animals against rabiesXianfu Wu
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Vaccine 29:4195-201. 2011..Overall, this highly attenuated live rabies virus offered better protection than the inactivated vaccine...
Treatment of rabies in the 21st century: curing the incurable?Richard Franka
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G33, GA 30333, USA
Future Microbiol 6:1135-40. 2011....
Oral efficacy of an attenuated rabies virus vaccine in skunks and raccoonsCathleen A Hanlon
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Mailstop G33, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Wildl Dis 38:420-7. 2002..Given these results, SAG-2 is a promising candidate vaccine that may satisfy both safety and efficacy concerns for oral rabies immunization of major North American rabies reservoirs...
Development of a GIS-based, real-time Internet mapping tool for rabies surveillanceJesse D Blanton
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Int J Health Geogr 5:47. 2006..This surveillance system, RabID, provides a new resource for the rapid mapping and dissemination of data on animal rabies cases in relation to unaffected, enzootic, and baited areas where current interventions are underway...
Experimental rabies virus infection of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus)Felix R Jackson
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Wildl Dis 44:612-21. 2008..No bat-to-bat transmission of RABV to noninfected bats was detected...
Complete genomes of Aravan, Khujand, Irkut and West Caucasian bat viruses, with special attention to the polymerase gene and non-coding regionsIvan V Kuzmin
Rabies Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS G 33 Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 136:81-90. 2008..The absence of a flanking transcription initiation signal, as well as Northern and Western blot data, suggests that this region is not independently transcribed but is a part of G mRNA...
Are all lyssavirus genes equal for phylogenetic analyses?Xianfu Wu
Rabies Program PRB, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 129:91-103. 2007....
Reemerging rabies and lack of systemic surveillance in People's Republic of ChinaXianfu Wu
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:1159-64. 2009..A laboratory diagnosis-based epidemiologic surveillance system can provide substantial information about disease transmission and effective prevention strategies...
Human rabies prevention--United States, 2008: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization PracticesSusan E Manning
Preventive Medicine Residency, Office of Workforce and Career Development, CDC, USA
MMWR Recomm Rep 57:1-28. 2008....
Rabies-related knowledge and practices among persons at risk of bat exposures in ThailandKis Robertson
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Office of Workforce and Career Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 5:e1054. 2011..The objectives were to identify deficiencies in rabies awareness, describe the occurrence of bat exposures, and explore factors associated with transdermal bat exposures...
Postexposure prophylaxis for prevention of rabies in dogsCathleen A Hanlon
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Vet Res 63:1096-100. 2002..However, vaccine combined with mAb resulted in protection in all treated dogs, revealing the potential use of mAb in PEP against rabies in naive dogs...
Detection of novel SARS-like and other coronaviruses in bats from KenyaSuxiang Tong
Gastroenteritis and Respiratory Virus Laboratory Branch, Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:482-5. 2009..The sequence diversity suggests that bats are well-established reservoirs for and likely sources of coronaviruses for many species, including humans...
Rabies among infrequently reported mammalian carnivores in the United States, 1960-2000John W Krebs
Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, 1600 Clifton Road MS G13, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Wildl Dis 39:253-61. 2003..Variants of the rabies virus in samples from mongooses in Puerto Rico could not be distinguished from those in samples from dogs in Puerto Rico by virus typing methods...
Design of future rabies biologics and antiviral drugsTodd G Smith
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Adv Virus Res 79:345-63. 2011..Considering the lag from creation of new concepts to experimental development and clinical trials, many years will likely elapse between today's ideas and tomorrow's practices...
Skunk and raccoon rabies in the eastern United States: temporal and spatial analysisMarta A Guerra
Division of Quarantine and Global Migration, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:1143-50. 2003..In areas where the raccoon rabies virus variant is enzootic, spatio-temporal analysis does not provide evidence that this rabies virus variant is currently cycling independently among skunks...
Marburg virus in fruit bat, kenyaIvan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA I V Kuzmin, M Niezgoda, R Franka, W J Shieh, S R Zaki, C E Rupprecht National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya B Agwanda University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa W Markotter and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kenya, Nairobi R F Breiman
Emerg Infect Dis 16:352-4. 2010..MARV was detected in tissues of Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) and other bat species from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, and Uganda (3-6)...
Efficacy of rabies biologics against new lyssaviruses from EurasiaCathleen A Hanlon
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Rabies Team, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Virus Res 111:44-54. 2005..The potential impact of these new lyssaviruses on human and domestic animal health and the impact on the putative bat reservoir populations will require further field and laboratory investigation...
Lyssavirus surveillance in bats, BangladeshIvan V Kuzmin
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:486-8. 2006..The infection occurs in bats in Bangladesh, but virus prevalence appears low...
A high-resolution genetic signature of demographic and spatial expansion in epizootic rabies virusRoman Biek
Department of Biology and Center for Disease Ecology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:7993-8. 2007..Such approaches will be of increasing relevance for understanding the epidemiology of emerging zoonotic diseases in a landscape context...
Knowledge of bat rabies and human exposure among United States caversRobert V Gibbons
Rabies Section, Viral and Ricksettial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:532-4. 2002..An under-appreciation of the risk for rabies from bat bites may explain the preponderance of human rabies viruses caused by variant strains associated with bats in the United States...
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2010Jesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Am Vet Med Assoc 239:773-83. 2011..Wisconsin reported a human rabies case involving a 70-year-old male that was confirmed to have been caused by a rabies virus variant associated with tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus)...
Rabies in Sri Lanka: splendid isolationSusilakanthi Nanayakkara
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:368-71. 2003..Stable, geographically isolated virus populations are susceptible to local extinction. A fully implemented rabies-control campaign could make Sri Lanka the first Asian country in >30 years to become free of rabies virus...
Travel vaccination for rabiesJesse D Blanton
Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Expert Rev Vaccines 7:613-20. 2008..Travelers to countries where rabies is prevalent should balance the cost and inconvenience of immunization to the benefits of rabies pre-exposure vaccination...
Time series analysis of the impact of oral vaccination on raccoon rabies in West Virginia, 1990-2007Xiaoyue Ma
Rabies Program, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 10:801-9. 2010..The results of the model indicate that the effect of the ORV intervention to control raccoon rabies was statistically significant. ORV should be attempted in other enzootic raccoon rabies areas...
Evolutionary timescale of rabies virus adaptation to North American bats inferred from the substitution rate of the nucleoprotein geneGareth J Hughes
Rabies Section, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mail-Stop G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Gen Virol 86:1467-74. 2005....
A phylogenetic reconstruction of the epidemiological history of canine rabies virus variants in ColombiaGareth J Hughes
Rabies Section, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mail-Stop G33, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Infect Genet Evol 4:45-51. 2004..We demonstrate that phylogenetic reconstructions and sequence analysis can be used to support incidence data from the field in the assessment of RV epidemiology...
