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PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
卷 15, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009536
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- Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response: Public Health Crisis Response (BRE) [CDC-RFA-TP18-1802]
The study confirmed that mongoose populations in the US Virgin Islands are rabies-free and do not pose a risk of transmission to humans or animals. This is the first Caribbean state to achieve freedom-from-rabies for its mongoose populations through a scientifically-led study. Ongoing surveillance efforts will determine if other animal populations in the US Virgin Islands are also rabies-free.
Author summary Mongooses in the Caribbean region are known to carry rabies and infect and kill humans with the deadly virus. While many countries in the Caribbean region assume they are rabies-free, there is a lack of scientifically based surveillance. We prospectively designed a statistically valid study to determine that mongoose populations in the US Virgin Islands are rabies-free and pose no risk of transmission to human or animal populations. We are pursuing further surveillance efforts to establish rabies freedom in all wildlife and domestic animal population in the US Virgin Islands. Mongooses, a nonnative species, are a known reservoir of rabies virus in the Caribbean region. A cross-sectional study of mongooses at 41 field sites on the US Virgin Islands of St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas captured 312 mongooses (32% capture rate). We determined the absence of rabies virus by antigen testing and rabies virus exposure by antibody testing in mongoose populations on all three islands. USVI is the first Caribbean state to determine freedom-from-rabies for its mongoose populations with a scientifically-led robust cross-sectional study. Ongoing surveillance activities will determine if other domestic and wildlife populations in USVI are rabies-free.
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