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This hinders the process of making evidence-based health and policy recommendations to prevent the introduction and spread of rabies.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>CDC conducted a country-by-country qualitative assessment of risk and protective factors for rabies to develop an open-access database of core metrics consisting of the presence of lyssaviruses (specifically canine or wildlife rabies virus variants or other bat lyssaviruses), access to rabies immunoglobulins and vaccines, rabies surveillance capacity and canine rabies control capacity. Using these metrics, we developed separate risk scoring systems to inform rabies prevention guidance for travelers and regulations for the importation of dogs. Both scoring systems assigned higher risk to countries with enzootic rabies (particularly canine rabies), and the risk scoring system for travelers also considered protective factors such as the accessibility of rabies biologics for post-exposure prophylaxis. Cumulative scores were calculated across the assessed metrics to assign a risk value of low, moderate or high.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A total of 240 countries, territories and dependencies were assessed, for travelers, 116 were identified as moderate to high risk and 124 were low or no risk; for canine rabies virus variant importation, 111 were identified as high-risk and 129 were low or no risk.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We developed a comprehensive and easily accessible source of information for assessing the rabies risk for individual countries that included a database of rabies risk and protective factors based on enzootic status and availability of biologics, provided a resource that categorizes risk by country and provided guidance based on these risk categories for travelers and importers of dogs into the United States.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/jtm\/taac046","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,25]],"date-time":"2022-03-25T22:33:04Z","timestamp":1648247584000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["A country classification system to inform rabies prevention guidelines and regulations"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Ronnie E","family":"Henry","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jesse D","family":"Blanton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kristina M","family":"Angelo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emily G","family":"Pieracci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kendra","family":"Stauffer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emily S","family":"Jentes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jessica","family":"Allen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marielle","family":"Glynn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Clive M","family":"Brown","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cindy R","family":"Friedman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ryan","family":"Wallace","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024032619525118600_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"126","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vaccine.2011.11.007","article-title":"Rabies vaccination for international travelers","volume":"30","author":"Gautret","year":"2012","journal-title":"Vaccine"},{"key":"2024032619525118600_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tmaid.2020.101766","article-title":"Epidemiology of rabies cases among international travellers, 2013\u20132019: a retrospective analysis of published reports","volume":"36","author":"Gautret","year":"2020","journal-title":"Travel Med Infect Dis"},{"key":"2024032619525118600_ref3","first-page":"1","article-title":"Human rabies prevention--United States, 2008: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices","volume":"57","author":"Manning","year":"2008","journal-title":"MMWR Recomm Rep"},{"key":"2024032619525118600_ref4","article-title":"estimating the global burden of endemic canine rabies","volume":"9","author":"Hampson","year":"2015","journal-title":"PLoS Negl Trop Dis"},{"key":"2024032619525118600_ref5","volume-title":"CDC Heal. 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