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Address for correspondence: Leslie A. Real, Department of Biology and Center for Disease Ecology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; email: lreal@emory.edu

We thank Thomas Wampler, John Moore, Joshua Hoblet, John Paul Seman, Caleb Wellman, and Kathleen Smith for help with collecting samples.

We also thank local health department personnel responsible for picking up animals for enhanced surveillance testing.

We are grateful to Charles Rupprecht for helpful discussions, Jesse Blanton for assistance with mapping, and Lillian Orciari and Michael Niezgoda for providing access to archived samples.

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Keywords:

  • Rabies virus
  • wild animals
  • raccoon
  • genetic markers
  • vaccination
  • dispatch

Rabies Virus in Raccoons, Ohio, 2004

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Volume 14, Number 4

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, Pages 650-652

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Article | Final Publisher PDF

Abstract:

In 2004, the raccoon rabies virus variant emerged in Ohio beyond an area where oral rabies vaccine had been distributed to prevent westward spread of this variant. Our genetic investigation indicates that this outbreak may have begun several years before 2004 and may have originated within the vaccination zone.

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Emerging Infectious Diseases is published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a U.S. Government agency. Therefore, all materials published in Emerging Infectious Diseases are in the public domain and can be used without permission.

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