Browsing by Subject "Disease Transmission, Infectious/prevention & control"

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Barriers to dog rabies vaccination during an urban rabies outbreak: Qualitative findings from Arequipa, Peru

Castillo Neyra, Ricardo; Brown, Joanna; Borrini, Katty; Arevalo Nieto, Claudia Rebeca; Levy, Michael Z.; Buttenheim, Alison; Hunter, Gabrielle C.; Becerra, Victor; Behrman, Jere; Paz-Soldan Parlette, Valerie Andrea (Public Library of Science, 2017)

BACKGROUND: Canine rabies was reintroduced to the city of Arequipa, Peru in March 2015. The Ministry of Health has conducted a series of mass dog vaccination campaigns to contain the outbreak, but canine rabies virus ...
Elimination of Taenia solium Transmission in Northern Peru

García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Gonzalez Zariquiey, Armando Emiliano; Tsang, Victor C. W.; O'Neal, Seth E.; Llanos Zavalaga, Luis Fernando; Gonzalvez, Guillermo; Romero, Jaime; Rodriguez, Silvia; Moyano, Luz M.; Ayvar, Viterbo; Diaz, Andre; Hightower, Allen; Craig, Philip S.; Lightowlers, Marshall W.; Gauci, Charles G.; Leontsini, Elli; Gilman, Robert Hugh (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2016)

BACKGROUND: Taeniasis and cysticercosis are major causes of seizures and epilepsy. Infection by the causative parasite Taenia solium requires transmission between humans and pigs. The disease is considered to be eradicable, ...

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