A retrospective evaluation of bites at risk of rabies transmission across 7 years: The need to improve surveillance and reporting systems for rabies elimination

Pasquale De Nardo; Elisa Gentilotti; Francesco Vairo; Boniface Nguhuni; Zainab Chaula; Emanuele Nicastri; Abbas Ismail; Giuseppe Ippolito

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197996

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A retrospective evaluation of bites at risk of rabies transmission across 7 years: The need to improve surveillance and reporting systems for rabies elimination

Pasquale De Nardo,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania, ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4433-0138

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Elisa Gentilotti,

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Francesco Vairo,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Boniface Nguhuni ,

Roles Data curation

* E-mail: bonellias@gmail.com

Affiliations Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania, ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Zainab Chaula,

Roles Validation

Affiliation Resource Centre for Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania
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Emanuele Nicastri,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Abbas Ismail,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation University of Dodoma - UDOM, Department of Statistics, Dodoma, Tanzania
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Giuseppe Ippolito

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ National Institute for Infectious Diseases INMI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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A retrospective evaluation of bites at risk of rabies transmission across 7 years: The need to improve surveillance and reporting systems for rabies elimination

Pasquale De Nardo,
Elisa Gentilotti,
Francesco Vairo,
Boniface Nguhuni,
Zainab Chaula,
Emanuele Nicastri,
Abbas Ismail,
Giuseppe Ippolito

Published: July 2, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197996

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