Enos Madaye

TL;DR: It is shown that highly connected dogs hold a critical role in transmission and that targeted vaccination of such dogs would lead to more efficient vaccination campaigns, and that major outbreaks are prevented when at least 70% of dogs are vaccinated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate dog demography, management, and roaming behavior across four countries: Chad, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Uganda, using an AIC-based approach to select variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate social networks of free roaming domestic dogs (FRDD) in eleven study sites in Chad, Guatemala, Indonesia and Uganda, and identify characteristics of dogs, and their owners, associated with their centrality in the networks.

TL;DR: This work presents a complete protocol for field postmortem diagnosis of animal rabies using a rapid immunochromatographic diagnostic test (RIDT), from brain biopsy sampling to the final interpretation, and finds increased test sensitivity, reaching 98% compared to the gold standard reference method, the direct immunofluorescence antibody test.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors implemented animal rabies surveillance based on One Health communication, improved accessibility of diagnostic testing and facilitated sample transport to increase case detection in three regions of Chad.