Fig 1.
Location of the study and evolution of ORV areas.
*Latvia: 2008 and autumn 2011: ORV not fully completed; spring 2014: ORV not carried out.
Fig 2.
Evolution of the number of detected rabies cases over time, number of dropped baits and type of vaccine used in the three Baltic countries (top to bottom: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) since 2005.
Fig 3.
Evolution of the bait uptake in the three Baltic countries (red fox and raccoon dog data) after implementation of ORV EU programmes in the Baltic States.
(S: spring; A: autumn).
Fig 4.
Evolution of the bait uptake over time in red foxes and raccoon dogs in the Baltic States.
Table 1.
Variables associated with the bait uptake and corresponding odds ratio of the selected model for the Baltic States data (a), for the Estonian and Lithuanian data with the variable “AGE” (b) and for the Latvian data with the variables “BAIT DENSITY” and “BAIT TYPE” (c).
Fig 5.
Evolution of the bait uptake in Latvia in red foxes and raccoon dogs using two different bait types.
Fig 6.
Evolution of the seroconversion level in the three Baltic countries (red fox and raccoon dog data) after implementation of ORV EU programmes in the Baltic States.
Table 2.
Variables associated with the seroconversion and corresponding odds ratio included in the selected model for the three Baltic States data (a), for the Lithuanian data with the variable “AGE” (b) and for the Latvian data with the variable “BAIT DENSITY”, “BAIT TYPE” and “KIT” (c).
Fig 7.
Evolution of the seroconversion in Latvia (red fox and raccoon dog data) analysed using two different ELISA kits.
Fig 8.
PhyML phylogenetic tree of the 59 representative isolates from Baltic States included in the study.
Abbreviations for the previous described European (Central Europe (CE), Eastern Europe (EE), North-East Europe (NEE) and Western Europe (WE)) and Russian (C) groups are given according to Bourhy et al. [38] and Kuzmin et al. [48].