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ReviewOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2025

Rabies research in Uganda - A scoping review.

Rabina Ghimire, Terence Odoch, Samuel George Okech, Rose Lesley Ninsiima, Felister Apio, Siya Aggrey, Felix Opiyo Lakor, Clovice Kankya, Salome Dürr, Sonja Hartnack

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Review in One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Rabina GhimireSection of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Terence OdochCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Samuel George OkechCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Rose Lesley NinsiimaCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Felister ApioCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Siya AggreyUganda Wildlife Research and Training Institute, Kasese, Uganda.
Felix Opiyo LakorCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Clovice KankyaCollege of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources, and Biosecurity, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Salome DürrVeterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Sonja HartnackSection of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rabies remains endemic in Uganda and is a priority zoonotic disease due to its significant public health burden. Although Uganda has committed to eliminating dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030, operational and financial challenges persist. A key gap is the lack of a focused research agenda and insufficient funding for its implementation, highlighting the need to map existing research to guide future priorities. This scoping review, thus, aimed at describing and mapping the existing research on rabies in Uganda by identifying, categorizing, and summarizing existing research, while highlighting research gaps to guide future studies and support evidence-based interventions for rabies control and elimination. The scoping review followed PRISMA-ScR guidelines and was registered with the Open Science Framework. A systematic search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase databases yielded 110 studies after deduplication. Following screening, 26 original studies regarding rabies research that were based in Uganda were included in the review. Most of these studies were descriptive cross-sectional in design (

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DiagnosticsRabiesResearchSurveillanceUganda

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PMID41159103
PMCPMC12555810

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