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Rabies in Sri Lanka: Splendid isolation

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2003) 9(3) 368-371
DOI: 10.3201/eid0903.020545
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Rabies virus exists in dogs on Sri Lanka as a single, minimally divergent lineage only distantly related to other rabies virus lineages in Asia. Stable, geographically isolated virus populations are susceptible to local extinction. A fully implemented rabies-control campaign could make Sri Lanka the first Asian country in >30 years to become free of rabies virus.

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Nanayakkara, S., Smith, J. S., & Rupprecht, C. E. (2003). Rabies in Sri Lanka: Splendid isolation. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9(3), 368–371. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0903.020545

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