Rabies epidemiology, prevention and control in Nigeria: Scoping progress towards elimination

• Philip P. Mshelbwala ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: philbwala@yahoo.com, p.mshelbwala@uq.net.au

  Affiliations UQ Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6834-1456

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• J. Scott Weese,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1896-1937

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• Olufunmilayo A. Sanni-Adeniyi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5784-1148

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• Shovon Chakma,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UQ Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-3148

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• Stephen S. Okeme,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agriculture & Rural Development Secretariat, Federal Capital Territory Administration Abuja Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7702-8253

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• Abdullah A. Mamun,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Social Science Research, the University of Queensland, Long Pocket, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1535-8086

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• Charles E. Rupprecht,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rabies Section, LYSSA LLC, Cumming, Georgia, United States of America

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• R. J. Soares Magalhaes

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations UQ Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia, Children’s Health and Research Centre, Children’s Health and Environment Program, the University of Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9157-8470

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