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Surveillance of animal rabies in Burkina Faso: A retrospective laboratory data from 2008 to 2012

Article scientifique 2019 Anglais

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Abstract Objectives: Rabies causes more than 59 000 deaths each year worldwide with 95% of cases in Africa and Asia. It is endemic in most of African countries and 99% of human rabies cases are dogs mediated rabies. This study aimed to review data on animal rabies surveillance in Burkina Faso from 2008 to 2012. Results: From 2008 to 2012, 1579 animal samples were analyzed for rabies confirmation with an average of 315 samples by year. Canine rabies was most suspected with 88.6% of samples. On overall, 79% of samples were positive and the highest positive percentage was on 2012 (90%). Rabies was confirmed from dogs, cats, monkeys, shrews, rodents, horses, donkeys, and sheep but canine rabies was the most prevalent (87.8%). Regarding dogs rabies, positive samples were found among vaccinated dogs and during year 2012, 91.4 % of samples received from vaccinated dogs were positive.

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Germaine, M., Dahourou, L., Savadogo, M., Tialla, D., Combari, A., Kanyala, E., Lassina, O., KABORE, S., Victorine, O., Yaya, T., Issa, K. (2019). Surveillance of animal rabies in Burkina Faso: A retrospective laboratory data from 2008 to 2012. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.12643/v1

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MINOUNGO Germaine Laibané Dieudonné Dahourou Madi Savadogo Dieudonné Tialla Alima Hadjia Banyala Combari Estelle Kanyala Ouattara Lassina Sonia Anne KABORE OUEDRAOGO Victorine TABOURET Yaya KERE Issa

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