Safety of Lyophilized SAG2 Oral Rabies Vaccine in Collared Lemmings

Erich H. Follmann; Donald G. Ritter; Donald W. Hartbauer

doi:10.7589/0090-3558-38.1.216

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1 January 2002 Safety of Lyophilized SAG2 Oral Rabies Vaccine in Collared Lemmings

Erich H. Follmann, Donald G. Ritter, Donald W. Hartbauer

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J. of Wildlife Diseases, 38(1):216-218 (2002). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-38.1.216

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Fifteen collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx groenlandicus) were exposed to a lyophilized oral rabies vaccine designed to immunize wild carnivore populations. No animals contracted rabies from the vaccine as determined by the absence of clinical signs after 37 days and lack of rabies virus in brain tissue determined by the fluorescent antibody (FA) test. These results suggest that collared lemmings would not contract rabies if they ingested this lyophilized vaccine in the wild during bait vaccination programs for arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus).

Follmann, Ritter, and Hartbauer: Safety of Lyophilized SAG2 Oral Rabies Vaccine in Collared Lemmings

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Erich H. Follmann, Donald G. Ritter, and Donald W. Hartbauer "Safety of Lyophilized SAG2 Oral Rabies Vaccine in Collared Lemmings," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 38(1), 216-218, (1 January 2002). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-38.1.216

Received: 26 July 2000; Published: 1 January 2002

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