title: [Surveillance and prevention of animal rabies in the world].
abstract: The author examines in turn methods and results for surveillance and control of rabies in animals. Surveillance is essentially carried out by collecting laboratory results from diagnoses of rabies in animals through direct immunofluorescence in the sample or after mouse inoculation or inoculation in cell cultures. Due to technical and financial constraints, the results collected are usually insufficient in number, particularly in developing countries. Surveillance of rabies is thus often based on data obtained from a non-target species (human beings). Disease prophylaxis varies according to whether rabies is found in wildlife or domestic animals. In both cases, there is at present a tendency to abandon methods of sanitary prophylaxis by reducing the number of vector-animals (fox, stray dogs, cats, bats, etc.), and instead to introduce medical prophylaxis by preventive vaccination. As a result, oral vaccination has already given spectacular results in the fight against rabies in foxes, and could also be used for dogs. The author specifies the conditions for applying this vaccination.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blancou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D019085:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct; D006801:Humans; D011818:Rabies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*; D011819:Rabies Vaccines
chemical_list: D011819:Rabies Vaccines
vernacular_title: Surveillance et prophylaxie de la rage animale dans le monde.