Spatiotemporal analysis of canine rabies in El Salvador: Violence and poverty as social factors of canine rabies.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The incidence of canine rabies cases in El Salvador has decreased in the last decade since the establishment of intense control programs, such as massive vaccination campaigns implemented by the Ministry of Health. Socioeconomic crises in recent years have limited the access to certain areas across the country and have impacted surveillance and prevention campaigns, which places the country at risk for a resurgence of canine rabies.We aimedto describe the spatiotemporal patterns of canine rabies and its association with critical social factors in El Salvador from 2005 to 2014. METHOD:We included 459 cases of canine rabies. Several socioeconomic, demographic, and surveillance variables were modeled using a Poisson regression to evaluate their associations with the incidence of ca

SUBMITTER: Arias-Orozco P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097665 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature