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Volume 8, Number 12, December 2002

Perspectives

Identifying Reservoirs of Infection: A Conceptual and Practical Challenge

Daniel T. Haydon,* Sarah Cleaveland,*Louise H. Taylor,* and M. Karen Laurenson*
*University of Edinburgh, Roslin, U.K.

 

 
 
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Figure 2. Potential complexity of rabies reservoirs in Zimbabwe. If jackals with (A) or without (B) other wild carnivore populations constitute a maintenance community independent of dogs, then vaccination of dogs alone will not result in rabies elimination in the target. If jackals do not constitute a maintenance community independent of dogs (C), then dog vaccination should clear rabies from the reservoir (symbols as in Figure 1).

 

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