Initial pen and field assessment of baits to use in oral rabies vaccination of Formosan ferret-badgers in response to the re-emergence of rabies in Taiwan

• Ryan M. Wallace ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: euk5@cdc.gov, kcjpei@gms.ndhu.edu.tw, ychih0502@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors are co-lead authors on this work.

  Affiliations United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, United States of America

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• Yuching Lai ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are co-lead authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Hazards-Resistant Design, Huafan University, Shiding, New Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jeffrey B. Doty,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Chen-Chih Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Wildlife Conservation, National Pingtung University of Science & Technology, Neipu, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Neil M. Vora,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, United States of America

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• Jesse D. Blanton,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Susan S. Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture. Taipei, Taiwan

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• Julie M. Cleaton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Oak Ridge, TN, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-5323

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• Kurtis J. C. Pei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Wildlife Conservation, National Pingtung University of Science & Technology, Neipu, Pingtung, Taiwan

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