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A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns
The elimination of canine rabies through the implementation of high coverage mass dog vaccination campaigns is a complex task, particularly in the resource-limited countries of the rabies endemic world. Here we demonstrated the feasibility of applying targeted rabies vaccination campaigns to deliver...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31505844 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines7030108 |
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author | Coetzer, Andre Scott, Terence P. Noor, Khadija Gwenhure, Lambert F. Nel, Louis H. |
author_facet | Coetzer, Andre Scott, Terence P. Noor, Khadija Gwenhure, Lambert F. Nel, Louis H. |
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description | The elimination of canine rabies through the implementation of high coverage mass dog vaccination campaigns is a complex task, particularly in the resource-limited countries of the rabies endemic world. Here we demonstrated the feasibility of applying targeted rabies vaccination campaigns to deliver more impactful intervention campaigns in resource-limited settings using evidence and lessons learnt from other diseases. With the use of strategic rabies intervention programs, we demonstrate the noteworthy reduction of rabies cases in two very different African settings. The strategic intervention was most significantly aided by the use of a custom-developed vaccination tracking device (the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) Data Logger) and an integrated rabies surveillance system (the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin). Our first case study, an island-wide strategic dog vaccination on Tanzania’s Unguja island, reduced the incidence of rabies by 71% in the first 16 months of implementation. In the second case study, a similar approach was applied in the metropolitan capital city of Zimbabwe and the incidence of rabies declined by 13% during the first 13 months of implementation. The methodologies and results presented here suggest that, in resource-limited settings, an optimal approach towards the elimination of dog rabies would revolve around strategic interventions, subject to the use of appropriate planning, surveillance, and vaccination tools. |
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spelling | pubmed-67897532019-10-16 A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns Coetzer, Andre Scott, Terence P. Noor, Khadija Gwenhure, Lambert F. Nel, Louis H. Vaccines (Basel) Article The elimination of canine rabies through the implementation of high coverage mass dog vaccination campaigns is a complex task, particularly in the resource-limited countries of the rabies endemic world. Here we demonstrated the feasibility of applying targeted rabies vaccination campaigns to deliver more impactful intervention campaigns in resource-limited settings using evidence and lessons learnt from other diseases. With the use of strategic rabies intervention programs, we demonstrate the noteworthy reduction of rabies cases in two very different African settings. The strategic intervention was most significantly aided by the use of a custom-developed vaccination tracking device (the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) Data Logger) and an integrated rabies surveillance system (the Rabies Epidemiological Bulletin). Our first case study, an island-wide strategic dog vaccination on Tanzania’s Unguja island, reduced the incidence of rabies by 71% in the first 16 months of implementation. In the second case study, a similar approach was applied in the metropolitan capital city of Zimbabwe and the incidence of rabies declined by 13% during the first 13 months of implementation. The methodologies and results presented here suggest that, in resource-limited settings, an optimal approach towards the elimination of dog rabies would revolve around strategic interventions, subject to the use of appropriate planning, surveillance, and vaccination tools. MDPI 2019-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6789753/ /pubmed/31505844 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines7030108 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Coetzer, Andre Scott, Terence P. Noor, Khadija Gwenhure, Lambert F. Nel, Louis H. A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns |
title | A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns |
title_full | A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns |
title_fullStr | A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns |
title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns |
title_short | A Novel Integrated and Labile eHealth System for Monitoring Dog Rabies Vaccination Campaigns |
title_sort | novel integrated and labile ehealth system for monitoring dog rabies vaccination campaigns |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6789753/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31505844 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines7030108 |
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