About the Authors

Laurent Dacheux

laurent.dacheux@pasteur.fr

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

Minerva Cervantes-Gonzalez

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

Ghislaine Guigon

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health Platform, Paris, France

Jean-Michel Thiberge

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health Platform, Paris, France

Mathias Vandenbogaert

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health Platform, Paris, France

Corinne Maufrais

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Computer Center for Biology, Paris, France

Valérie Caro

Contributed equally to this work with: Valérie Caro, Hervé Bourhy

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health Platform, Paris, France

Hervé Bourhy

Contributed equally to this work with: Valérie Caro, Hervé Bourhy

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, WHO Reference Center 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: LD MCG VC HB. Performed the experiments: LD MCG GG JMT MV HB. Analyzed the data: LD MCG GG JMT MV CM VC HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD GG JMT MV CM VC HB. Wrote the paper: LD HB MV VC.