Prevalence and public health significance of rabies virus in bats in the North Region of Cameroon

• Isaac Dah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isaac Dah, Rodrigue Simonet Poueme Namegni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dah_isaac@yahoo.fr

  Affiliations School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, The University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET), Garoua, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3879-4454

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• Rodrigue Simonet Poueme Namegni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isaac Dah, Rodrigue Simonet Poueme Namegni

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET), Garoua, Cameroon

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• Mohamed Moctar Mouiche Mouliom,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, The University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon

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• Simon Dickmu Jumbo,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET), Garoua, Cameroon

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• Ranyl Nguena Guefack Noumedem,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliations School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, The University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET), Garoua, Cameroon

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• Isabelle Conclois,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation MIVEGEC, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

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• Liegeois Florian,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MIVEGEC, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France, University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Laurent God-Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliations School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, The University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET), Garoua, Cameroon

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• Jean Marc Kameni Feussom,

  Roles Software, Supervision

  Affiliations Epidemiology-Public Health-Veterinary Association (ESPV), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Cameroon Epidemiological Network for Animal Diseases (RESCAM), Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (MINEPIA), Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Abel Wade,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Laboratory (LANAVET), Garoua, Cameroon

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• Dorothée Missé,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MIVEGEC, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

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• Julius Awah-Ndukum

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agronomy and Agricultural Sciences, University of Dschang, Dschang, Cameroon, Department of Animal Production Technology, College of Technology, University of Bamenda, Bambili, Cameroon

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