Recent Emergence and Spread of an Arctic-Related Phylogenetic Lineage of Rabies Virus in Nepal

• Ganesh R. Pant,

  Affiliation Rabies Vaccine Production Laboratory, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rachel Lavenir,

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

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• Frank Y. K. Wong,

  Affiliation Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO Animal Food and Health Sciences, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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• Andrea Certoma,

  Affiliation Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO Animal Food and Health Sciences, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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• Florence Larrous,

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

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• Dwij R. Bhatta,

  Affiliation Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Hervé Bourhy,

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

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• Vittoria Stevens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vittoria Stevens, Laurent Dacheux

  * E-mail: Vicky.Stevens@csiro.au (VS); laurent.dacheux@pasteur.fr (LD)

  Affiliation Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO Animal Food and Health Sciences, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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• Laurent Dacheux

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vittoria Stevens, Laurent Dacheux

  * E-mail: Vicky.Stevens@csiro.au (VS); laurent.dacheux@pasteur.fr (LD)

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

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