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Euro Surveill. Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 33, 18 August 2011
Rapid communications
Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011
A Mailles (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, D Boisseleau<SUP>2</SUP>, L Dacheux<SUP>3</SUP>, C Michalewiscz<SUP>4</SUP>, C Gloaguen<SUP>4</SUP>, N Pon?on<SUP>5</SUP>, H Bourhy<SUP>3</SUP>, H Callon<SUP>5</SUP>, V Vaillant<SUP>1</SUP>, I Dabosville<SUP>6</SUP>, P Morineau-Le Houssine<SUP>6</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Mailles A, Boisseleau D, Dacheux L, Michalewiscz C, Gloaguen C, Pon?on N, Bourhy H, Callon H, Vaillant V, Dabosville I, Morineau-Le Houssine P. Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(33):pii=19946. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19946
Date of submission: 17 August 2011 <HR>In August 2011, a case of canine rabies was notified to the French veterinary services. The dog was a three-month-old puppy illegally imported from Morocco that presented behavioural changes on 1 August and was admitted to a veterinary clinic on 6 August. It died the following day and the body was shortly sent to the national reference centre where rabies was laboratory-confirmed on 11 August. Contact tracing and post-exposure treatment were initiated immediately.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 33, 18 August 2011
Rapid communications
Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011
A Mailles (
- French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (Institut de Veille Sanitaire, InVS), Saint Maurice, France
- Regional Office for veterinary services Vend?e (Direction d?partementale de la protection des populations de Vend?e), La Roche sur Yon, France
- Institut Pasteur, National Reference Centre for Rabies, Paris, France
- Regional Agency for Health Pays de Loire, Nantes, France
- General Directorate for Food (Direction G?n?rale de l?Alimentation), Ministry of Agriculture, Paris, France
- Anti-rabies Centre, University Hospital (Centre antirabique, centre hospitalier universitaire), Nantes, France
Citation style for this article: Mailles A, Boisseleau D, Dacheux L, Michalewiscz C, Gloaguen C, Pon?on N, Bourhy H, Callon H, Vaillant V, Dabosville I, Morineau-Le Houssine P. Rabid dog illegally imported to France from Morocco, August 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(33):pii=19946. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=19946
Date of submission: 17 August 2011 <HR>In August 2011, a case of canine rabies was notified to the French veterinary services. The dog was a three-month-old puppy illegally imported from Morocco that presented behavioural changes on 1 August and was admitted to a veterinary clinic on 6 August. It died the following day and the body was shortly sent to the national reference centre where rabies was laboratory-confirmed on 11 August. Contact tracing and post-exposure treatment were initiated immediately.
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