Enzootic Rabies Elimination from Dogs and Reemergence in Wild Terrestrial Carnivores, United States

Velasco-Villa, Andrés; Reeder, Serena A.; Orciari, Lillian A.; Yager, Pamela A.; Franka, Richard; Blanton, Jesse D.; Zuckero, Letha; Hunt, Patrick; Oertli, Ernest H.; Robinson, Laura E.; Rupprecht, Charles E.

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Enzootic Rabies Elimination from Dogs and Reemergence in Wild Terrestrial Carnivores, United States

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Dec 2008
By Velasco-Villa, Andrés ; Reeder, Serena A. ; Orciari, Lillian A. ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Velasco-Villa, Andrés ; Reeder, Serena A. ; Orciari, Lillian A. ; Yager, Pamela A. ; Franka, Richard ; Blanton, Jesse D. ; Zuckero, Letha ; Hunt, Patrick ; Oertli, Ernest H. ; Robinson, Laura E. ; Rupprecht, Charles E.
Description:

To provide molecular and virologic evidence that domestic dog rabies is no longer enzootic to the United States and to identify putative relatives of dog-related rabies viruses (RVs) circulating in other carnivores, we studied RVs associated with recent and historic dog rabies enzootics worldwide. Molecular, phylogenetic, and epizootiologic evidence shows that domestic dog rabies is no longer enzootic to the United States. Nonetheless, our data suggest that independent rabies enzootics are now established in wild terrestrial carnivores (skunks in California and north-central United States, gray foxes in Texas and Arizona, and mongooses in Puerto Rico), as a consequence of different spillover events from long-term rabies enzootics associated with dogs. These preliminary results highlight the key role of dog RVs and human-dog demographics as operative factors for host shifts and disease reemergence into other important carnivore populations and highlight the need for the elimination of dog-related RVs worldwide.
Subjects:

Animals Animals, Wild Carnivora Communicable Diseases, Emerging Dog Diseases Dogs Foxes Herpestidae Humans Mephitidae Nucleoproteins Phylogeny Rabies Rabies Virus Research Sequence Analysis, DNA Zoonoses
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 14(12):1849-1854
Pubmed ID:

19046506
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC2634643
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Journal Article
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United States
Location:

North America
Volume:

14
Issue:

12
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:99d9191df4d5696b10b61eb3998251bcd5d4500226a50e4f2e29b32ca38e6744
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