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. 2004 Dec;10(12):2214-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1012.040080.

Rabies in endangered Ethiopian wolves

Deborah A Randall  1 , Stuart D Williams, Ivan V Kuzmin, Charles E Rupprecht, Lucy A Tallents, Zelealem Tefera, Kifle Argaw, Fekadu Shiferaw, Darryn L Knobel, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, M Karen Laurenson
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Rabies in endangered Ethiopian wolves

Deborah A Randall et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Dec.

Abstract

With rabies emerging as a particular threat to wild canids, we report on a rabies outbreak in a subpopulation of endangered Ethiopian wolves in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, in 2003 and 2004. Parenteral vaccination of wolves was used to manage the outbreak.

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Figure 1
Ethiopian wolves. Photo credit: Martin Harvey.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Ethiopian wolf subpopulations, habitat and carcass locations during the reported rabies outbreak in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Samples were not obtained from all carcasses, but those confirmed rabies positive are depicted with filled circles.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of African and Eurasian rabies virus samples, rooted with silver-haired bat rabies virus variant (SHBRV), based on a 400–base pair region of the nucleoprotein gene. The sample names are given according to GenBank records.
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