Oral rabies vaccination of foxes in Turkiye, 2019-2022.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rabies in Turkey is maintained by dogs, but following a sustained spill-over, red fox mediated rabies had spread from the Aegean region to the central part of Türkiye. During the past four years from 2019 to 2023 large scale efforts used oral rabies vaccination (ORV) to control rabies in red foxes. Here, we present the results of the largest ORV campaign on the Asian continent.

Methods

ORV campaigns were carried out twice a year in spring and autumn with a targeted bait density of 20-23 baits/km². Monitoring of ORV campaigns included the GIS-based analyses of bait distribution, the assessment of bait uptake through biomarker detection and the determination of seroconversion (sero-positivity in ELISA) in the target species collected within the vaccinatio

SUBMITTER: Aylan O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11402421 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature