Integrating one health strategies for rabies control: Insights from Jackal-mediated human rabies in Northeast India.

Introduction: Rabies is an ancient, lethal zoonotic disease caused by viruses of the genus Lyssavirus, affecting a wide variety of mammals. Though domestic dogs are the main vectors of rabies transmission to humans, other domestic and wildlife species also contribute to the spread of the disease in endemic regions like India. This report presents a case of human rabies following jackal exposure in India, along with the molecular characterization of the rabies virus (RABV) from both the jackal and the affected human patient.

Prevalence of multiple drug resistant in and around Guwahati, India.

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of and their resistance patterns isolated from both clinically healthy carriers and diseased pigs in and around Guwahati, Assam, India.

Materials And Methods: A total of 497 samples were collected during October, 2012, to April, 2014, from clinically healthy (n=67) and diseased (n=230) pigs of varying age and either sex maintained under organized and unorganized farming systems. Samples were processed for isolation and identification of by biochemical characterization and polymerase chain reaction targeting the housekeeping gene glutamate dehydrogenase.