Table 1
Dog and cat central nervous system samples from the Brazil-Bolivia border region sent for rabies diagnosis to the State Agency for Animal and Plant Health Protection of Mato Grosso do Sul by the Zoonoses Surveillance Unit of Corumbá, from 2006 to 2014.
| Country | Sample | Year | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||
| Brazil | Sent | 61 | 65 | 96 | 73 | 49 | 44 | 40 | 52 | 15 |
| Positive | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Positivity rate(%) | 1.6 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bolivia | Sent | 1 | NS | 17 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 2 | NS | 2 |
| Positive | 1 | – | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | – | 2 | |
| Positivity rate(%) | 100 | – | 70.6 | 29.4 | 75 | 0 | 50 | – | 100 | |
[i] *NS = not sent.
Table 2
Dog and cat central nervous system samples from the Brazil-Bolivia border region sent for rabies diagnosis to the State Agency for Animal and Plant Health Protection of Mato Grosso do Sul by the Zoonoses Surveillance Unit of Corumbá, arranged by month over the period of 2006 to 2014.
| Country | Sample | Month | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | ||
| Brazil | Sent | 23 | 61 | 52 | 82 | 120 | 73 | 114 | 122 | 74 | 70 | 41 | 51 |
| Positive | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Positivity rate(%) | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bolivia | Sent | 2 | 6 | 14 | NS | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | NS | 6 | 1 | NS |
| Positive | 1 | 4 | 3 | – | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | 1 | – | |
| Positivity rate(%) | 50 | 66.7 | 21.4 | – | 66.7 | 100 | 33.3 | 66.7 | – | 66.7 | 100 | – | |
[i] *NS = not sent.