Rabies is a lethal zoonotic disease that is caused by lyssaviruses, most often rabies virus.
Despite control efforts, sporadic outbreaks in wildlife populations are largely unpredictable …

Lyssaviruses are bullet-shaped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses and the
causative agents of the ancient zoonosis rabies. Africa is the likely home to the ancestors of …

The natural evolution of rabies virus (RABV) provides a potent example of multiple host
shifts and an important opportunity to determine the mechanisms that underpin viral …

Despite the rapid growth in viral genome sequencing, statistical methods face challenges in
handling historical viral endemic diseases with large amounts of underutilized partial …

The availability of pathogen sequence data and use of genomic surveillance is rapidly
increasing. Genomic tools and classification systems need updating to reflect this. Here …

Genomic surveillance is an important aspect of contemporary disease management but has
yet to be used routinely to monitor endemic disease transmission and control in low-and …

Landscape heterogeneity plays an important role in disease spread and persistence, but
quantifying landscape influences and their scale dependence is challenging. Studies have …

As countries with endemic canine rabies progress towards elimination by 2030, it will
become necessary to employ techniques to help plan, monitor, and confirm canine rabies …

More than 100 years of research has now been conducted into the prevention, control and
elimination of rabies with safe and highly efficacious vaccines developed for use in human …

Background Rabies is a fatal yet vaccine-preventable disease. In the last two decades,
domestic dog populations have been shown to constitute the predominant reservoir of …