Behavior of rabies outbreaks in Havana province

Authors

  • Dámasa Irene López Santa Cruz Centro Provincial de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología
  • Laura Hurtado Gascón
  • Yanuri Montalvo Reynoso
  • Sonia Varona Dávila
  • Jazmín Rodríguez Cruz
  • Alejandro Antuan Díaz Díaz
  • Judith Apsara Caballero Báez

Keywords:

Palabras claves, focos rábicos, Rabia, comportamiento, La Habana.

Abstract

Background: for the public health and world development diseases such as Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, Yellow fever and rabies are re-emergent and most of them are infections that have crossed the barrier that exists between animal species and humans.
Objective: to analyze the behavior of rabies outbreaks in Havana province, from 2013 to 2016.
Methods: a retrospective descriptive, observational study of rabies-positive animal species examined at the Provincial Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of Havana was conducted from 2013 to 2016. 51 samples of brains from carnivores, bats, and herbivores studied in the province were included. The direct immunofluorescence technique was used for the diagnosis of rabies. The description of the positivity was carried out using the Excel information systems.
Results: the municipality of Boyeros with the highest positivity index (24.5%) followed by Arroyo Naranjo, displaces canine rabies with 61.7% of rabies cases by mongoose. (Specify other relevant results).
Conclusions: the largest report of cases was reported in Boyeros geographically located in the south Havana province and bordering with Artemisa province.
DeCS: RABIES/epidemiology; RABIES VIRUS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ZOONOSES; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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2017-09-29

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López Santa Cruz DI, Hurtado Gascón L, Montalvo Reynoso Y, Varona Dávila S, Rodríguez Cruz J, Díaz Díaz AA, et al. Behavior of rabies outbreaks in Havana province. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2017 Sep. 29 [cited 2025 Oct. 15];21(5):631-8. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/5219

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