Complex Epidemiology of a Zoonotic Disease in a Culturally Diverse Region: Phylogeography of Rabies Virus in the Middle East

• Daniel L. Horton,

  Affiliations Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

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• Lorraine M. McElhinney,

  Affiliations Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Conrad M. Freuling,

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald—Insel Riems, Germany

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• Denise A. Marston,

  Affiliation Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom

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• Ashley C. Banyard,

  Affiliation Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom

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• Hooman Goharrriz,

  Affiliation Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom

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• Emma Wise,

  Affiliation Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom

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• Andrew C. Breed,

  Affiliation Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom

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• Greg Saturday,

  Affiliations Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIAID, NIH), Hamilton, Montana, United States of America, Formerly USAPHCR-Europe Laboratory Sciences, Veterinary Pathology, Landstuhl, Germany

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• Jolanta Kolodziejek,

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Erika Zilahi,

  Current address: Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Medical Health Science Centre, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

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• Muhannad F. Al-Kobaisi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

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• Norbert Nowotny,

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

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• Thomas Mueller,

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell Biology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald—Insel Riems, Germany

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• Anthony R. Fooks

  * E-mail: Tony.Fooks@apha.gsi.gov.uk

  Affiliations Animal and Plant Health Agency, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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