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One factor associated with this difficulty is the tendency of FRD to form groups, which increases their aggressive behavior, resulting in a significant risk of dog-bites for the vaccinators. This study investigated factors that influenced FRD forming groups and their home-ranges, using data obtained from photographic capture-recapture\/sight-resight surveys conducted in rural Shirsuphal (584 sightings) and urban Panchkula (3208 sightings), India. In the rural site, older dogs (OR 0.5, 95% CI 0.2\u20130.9, p = 0.03) and FRD sighted within 20 m of garbage sites (OR 0.6, 95% CI 0.4\u20130.9, p = 0.02) were less likely to be in groups. The number of dogs sighted with an FRD decreased with increased resight-probability of that dog (\u03b2 = \u22121.0, p &lt; 0.001). The rural FRD with smaller home-ranges were more likely to be sighted alone (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.0\u201395, p = 0.04) than those with larger home-ranges. In the urban site, females (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.1\u20131.5, p = 0.002) and older dogs (OR 1.5, 95% CI 1.1\u20132.1, p = 0.07) were more likely to be found in groups, and groups of dogs were more likely to be seen within 20 m of garbage sites (OR 1.7, 95% CI 1.5\u20132.0, p &lt; 0.001). The distribution of urban FRD sighted alone, in pairs, triads, and in packs of \u22654 dogs were not random in the administrative (p = 0.02), and the two industrial (p = 0.03 &amp; 0.01) survey tracks of the urban site, implying stable groups. The resighting probability of a dog (\u03b2 = 0.3, p &lt; 0.0001) and presence of garbage within 20 m (\u03b2 = 0.2, p &lt; 0.0001) in the urban site increased the likelihood of sighting a FRD with other dogs. It is concluded that data on the resighting probability, presence of garbage points, and home-ranges can be utilised to guide the selection of parenteral or oral rabies vaccination to achieve a population vaccination coverage of 70% to break the transmission cycle of rabies virus in FRD in India.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/vaccines7040136","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,30]],"date-time":"2019-09-30T13:16:41Z","timestamp":1569849401000},"page":"136","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Utilising Group-Size and Home-Range Characteristics of Free-Roaming Dogs (FRD) to Guide Mass Vaccination Campaigns against Rabies in India"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2911-9895","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Harish Kumar","family":"Tiwari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Perth, WA 6150, Australia"},{"name":"Ausvet, 5 Shuffrey Street, Fremantle, Perth, WA 6160, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3176-2094","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mieghan","family":"Bruce","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Perth, WA 6150, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2757-7585","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mark","family":"O\u2019Dea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Perth, WA 6150, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4255-4752","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ian D","family":"Robertson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Veterinary Medicine, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Perth, WA 6150, Australia"},{"name":"China-Australia Joint Research and Training Center for Veterinary Epidemiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Rowan, D.S.A. 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