Human rabies associated with domestic cat exposures in South Africa, 1983–2018.

In South Africa, RABV circulates both in domestic animals and wildlife cycles, involving the canid and mongoose variants of the virus (Nel, Thomson & Von Teichman [17]). Sylvatic cycles of the canid variant RABV in bat-eared foxes and black-backed jackal (Zulu et al. [23]) and the mongoose variant RABV in certain species of mongoose occur in South Africa (Van Zyl, Markotter & Nel [21]). Apart from the reservoir species, canid and mongoose RABV infections are reported in an array of domestic and wildlife species in the country, with these animals primarily serving as dead-end hosts (Sabeta et al. [20]). [Extracted from the article]