About the Authors

Hervé Bourhy

hbourhy@pasteur.fr; herve.bourhy@pasteur.fr

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

Emmanuel Nakouné

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, République Centrafricaine

Matthew Hall

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Pierre Nouvellet

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Anthony Lepelletier

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

Chiraz Talbi

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

Laurence Watier

Affiliations INSERM, UMR 1181 and Institut Pasteur, B2PHI, Paris, France, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France-Ouest, Université de Versailles–Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France

Edward C. Holmes

Affiliation Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia

Simon Cauchemez

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Philippe Lemey

Affiliation Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Christl A. Donnelly

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Andrew Rambaut

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB EN MH PN SC PL CAD AR. Performed the experiments: HB MH PN AL CT LW SC. Analyzed the data: HB EN MH PN AL CT LW ECH SC PL CAD AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB EN MH PN SC CAD AR. Wrote the paper: HB EN MH PN LW ECH SC PL CAD AR.