About the Authors

Chiraz Talbi

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France

Philippe Lemey

Affiliation Rega Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Marc A. Suchard

Affiliation Departments of Biomathematics and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Elbia Abdelatif

Affiliation Institut Pasteur d'Algérie, Laboratoire de la Rage, Recherche et Diagnostic, Alger, Algérie

Mehdi Elharrak

Affiliation Biopharma Laboratoire, Rabbat, Maroc

Nourlil Jalal

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Laboratoire de Virologie Médicale, Casablanca, Maroc

Abdellah Faouzi

Affiliation Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Laboratoire de Virologie Médicale, Casablanca, Maroc

Juan E. Echevarría

Affiliation Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Servicio de Microbiología Diagnóstica, Madrid, Spain

Sonia Vazquez Morón

Affiliation Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Servicio de Microbiología Diagnóstica, Madrid, Spain

Andrew Rambaut

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicholas Campiz

Affiliation Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Andrew J. Tatem

Affiliations Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Edward C. Holmes

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hervé Bourhy

herve.bourhy@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT PL AR AJT ECH HB. Performed the experiments: CT PL MAS EA ME NJ AF JEE SVM AR NC AJT ECH HB. Analyzed the data: CT PL MAS EA ME NJ AF JEE SVM AR NC AJT ECH HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CT PL MAS EA ME NJ AF JEE SVM AR NC AJT ECH HB. Wrote the paper: CT PL MAS EA ME NJ AF JEE SVM AR NC AJT ECH HB.