Rabies in chozna ‘Potus flavus’: a warning of a potential threat to public and animal health

Figures & data

Table 1. Characteristics of the Potos flavus cases in the Kosñipata district, Paucartambo province, Cusco region, Peru, 2021–2022.

Case	Epidemiological week	Location	Circumstances of the accident	Distance between consecutive cases	People attacked	Age of people attacked (years)	Antigenic variant
1	8 − 2021	Tupac Amaru Sector, Pillcopata	A person finds a small animal on a road when he treated to adopt it like a pet, he was attacked by a furious animal.	---------	1	12	4
2	15-2021	Sabaluyoc Sector, Pillcopata	Furious animal attacked a person who treated to get the animal out of his house.	Between case 1 and 2: 4 108 m	1	32	4
3	26-2021	Tupac Amaru Sector, Pillcopata	The dogs of a person were attacked by a furious animal, where the owner of the dogs was biting.	Between case 2 and 3: 3 561 m	1	38	4
4	28-2021	Pillcopata	A dying animal was finding in Pillcopata city by the people of the town	Between case 3 and 4 2 931 m	0	-----	4
5	49-2021	Villa San Francisco	Furious animal entered in a house and attacked the overnight room.	Between case 4 and 5 6 243 m	2	25/1	4
6	09 − 2022	Mistiana Patria	Furious animal entered and attacked the chicken coop of a house biting the owner of the house who treated to get the animal out.	Between case 5 and 6: 10 536 m	1	52	4
7	32-2022	Sonia Sector, Patria	Furious animal attacked and biting in the road where people were walking	Between case 6 and 7: 4 174 m	2	15/17	4
8	34-2022	Santa Rosa de Huacaria (native community), Pillcopata	Two children kill the chozna because it was chasing their chickens. They hadn’t bitten.	Between case 7 and 8: 9 478 m	0	-----	4
9	43-2022	Patria	Furious animal attack to dogs of the town with one dog injured	Between case 8 and 9: 6 920 m	0	-----	4

Figure 2. Phylogenetic tree of the RV isolated in Potos flavus and Reference sequences associated with bat transmission in Peru and america, including three sequences of choznas isolated in the department of Madre de Dios in the years 2007, 2013 and 2015. The maximum likelihood evolutionary tree was obtained using the IQ-TREE v1.6.12 program (model GTR + G + I, 1000 bootstraps).