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SUBMITTER: Johnson N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4513475 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johnson Nicholas N Nunez Alex A Marston Denise A DA Harkess Graeme G Voller Katja K Goddard Trudy T Hicks Daniel D McElhinney Lorraine M LM Fooks Anthony R AR
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20111118 4
Movement of dogs between rabies-endemic and rabies-free countries carries the inherent risk of introducing the disease. In April of 2008, a juvenile dog was imported to the UK from Sri Lanka. It died shortly after transfer to a quarantine facility in the south-east of England following a short history of diarrhoea and convulsions but no overt signs of aggression. Subsequent investigation confirmed that rabies was the cause of death. Rabies virus was isolated from brain samples taken from the dog ...[more]