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Compared with 2009, number of reported rabid animals decreased across all animal types with the exception of a 1 % increase in the number of reported rabid cats.</jats:p>\n<jats:p>Two cases of rabies involving humans were reported from Louisiana and Wisconsin in 2010. Louisiana reported an imported human rabies case involving a 19-year-old male migrant farm worker who had a history of a vampire bat (<jats:italic>Desmodus rotundus</jats:italic>) bite received while in Mexico. This represents the first human rabies case reported in the United States confirmed to have been caused by a vampire bat rabies virus variant. Wisconsin reported a human rabies case involving a 70-year-old male that was confirmed to have been caused by a rabies virus variant associated with tri-colored bats (<jats:italic>Perimyotis subflavus</jats:italic>).</jats:p>","journal":"Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association","year":2011,"id":687063,"datarank":0.6995158641168101,"base_score":4.663439094112067,"endowment":4.663439094112067,"self_citation_contribution":0.6995158641168101,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.6995158641168101,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":105,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1794944,"name":"Dustyn Palmer","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1794945,"name":"Jessie Dyer","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":449404,"name":"Charles E. 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