Mongoose Rabies

Everard, C. O. R.; Everard, J. D.

doi:10.1093/clinids/10.supplement_4.s610

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“…Mongoose sera were collected from 1971 to 1974 and tested for serum neutralizing antibodies [22] . The authors reported that during these 4 years the antibody prevalence increased while the percentage of rabid mongooses declined, consistent with a trend of declining disease in the mongoose population [21] . Since the 1980s, rabies surveillance in Grenada has been less intense and was further interrupted by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and Hurricane Emily in 2005.…”

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“…In Grenada, studies were conducted as part of a government rabies control program with the most intense surveillance period from 1968 to 1977 [15] , [16] , [19] , [20] . During these 10 years, 699 cases of rabies were confirmed in animals showing clinical signs of rabies, of which 77% were mongooses [21] . All of the cases of rabies in livestock with a known source and 57% of human rabies exposures treated for post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) (n = 119) were reported to be caused by mongoose bites.…”

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“…Since the 1980s, rabies surveillance in Grenada has been less intense and was further interrupted by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and Hurricane Emily in 2005. Although the last reported human death due to rabies in Grenada occurred in 1970 [21] , rabies remains of great public health concern. According to the Ministry of Health, 60–80 people in Grenada have required PEP annually during recent years as a consequence of mongoose or dog bites.…”

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The Phylogeography of Rabies in Grenada, West Indies, and Implications for Control

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In Grenada, West Indies, rabies is endemic, and is thought to be maintained in a wildlife host, the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) with occasional spillover into other hosts. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to improve understanding of rabies epidemiology in Grenada and to inform rabies control policy. Mongooses were trapped island-wide between April 2011 and March 2013 and examined for the presence of Rabies virus (RABV) antigen using the direct fluorescent antibody test (dFAT) and PCR, and for serum neutralizing antibodies (SNA) using the fluorescent antibody virus neutralization test (FAVN). An additional cohort of brain samples from clinical rabies suspects submitted between April 2011 and March 2014 were also investigated for the presence of virus. Two of the 171 (1.7%) live-trapped mongooses were RABV positive by FAT and PCR, and 20 (11.7%) had SNAs. Rabies was diagnosed in 31 of the submitted animals with suspicious clinical signs: 16 mongooses, 12 dogs, 2 cats and 1 goat. Our investigation has revealed that rabies infection spread from the northeast to the southwest of Grenada within the study period. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the viruses from Grenada formed a monophyletic clade within the cosmopolitan lineage with a common ancestor predicted to have occurred recently (6–23 years ago), and are distinct from those found in Cuba and Puerto Rico, where mongoose rabies is also endemic. These data suggest that it is likely that this specific strain of RABV was imported from European regions rather than the Americas. These data contribute essential information for any potential rabies control program in Grenada and demonstrate the importance of a sound evidence base for planning interventions.

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The Phylogeography of Rabies in Grenada, West Indies, and Implications for Control

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“…It is the principal rabies reservoir in South Africa and it may be an important source of wildlife rabies in India. 57…”

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Infections Acquired from Animals Other Than Pets

Shapiro¹

2017

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“…Mongooses are now pests throughout Puerto Rico. Besides impacts on native fauna (Pimentel 1955), especially endangered Puerto Rican parrots (Amazona vittata; Engeman et al 2006a), mongooses are a primary rabies reservoir in Puerto Rico (Everard & Everard 1988, 1992.…”

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