About the Authors

Milton Mapatse

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

miltonkitovet@gmail.com

Affiliation Veterinary Faculty, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique

Claude Sabeta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of Pretoria, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Pretoria, South Africa

Affiliation Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, OIE Rabies Reference Laboratory, Pretoria, South Africa

José Fafetine

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Veterinary Faculty, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, Centre of Biotechnology (CB-UEM), Maputo, Mozambique

Darrell Abernethy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Aberystwyth School of Veterinary Science, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.