Crump, Lisa http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4406-0238
Mauti, Stephanie
Traoré, Abdallah
Shaw, Alexandra
Hattendorf, Jan
Zinsstag, Jakob
Funding for this research was provided by:
Seventh Framework Programme (221948)
Universität Basel
Article History
Received: 12 March 2018
Accepted: 21 June 2018
First Online: 29 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: Research approval was granted by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (Ministère de l’Elevage et de la Pêche; Ordre de mission no. 0382/LCV) and by the national Malian ethics committee of the Ministry of Health (Ministère de la Santé, Comité national d’ethique pour la santé et les sciences de la vie (CNESS); Approbation du CNESS no. 22/MS-SG-CNESS/2011) in compliance with the requirements of the EU FP7 project (FP7-KBBE-2007-1-3-09). This study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All personnel were vaccinated against rabies according to the instructions of the vaccine producer. During the survey, the research team maintained stocks of human rabies vaccine to provide post exposure treatment to persons exposed to suspected rabid dog bites. All data were handled confidentially.
: This article does not contain any studies performed on animals.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.