Almost all cases of human rabies result from dog bites, making the elimination of canine
rabies a global priority. During recent decades, many countries in the Western Hemisphere …

Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease which is caused by negative strand RNA-viruses
belonging to the genus Lyssavirus. Within this genus, rabies viruses circulate in a diverse …

Rabies is an important zoonotic disease distributed worldwide. A key question in rabies
epidemiology is the identification of factors that impact virus dispersion. Here we apply new …

Rabies virus is the only Lyssavirus species found in the Americas. In discussions about
rabies, Latin America and the Caribbean are often grouped together. Our study aimed to …

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of global genomic surveillance to
monitor the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants and inform public health …

Rabies was known to humans as a disease thousands of years ago. In America,
insectivorous bats are natural reservoirs of rabies virus. The bat species Tadarida …

Understanding the processes that give rise to quantitative measurements associated with
molecular sequence data remains an important issue in statistical phylogenetics. Examples …

Pathogen spillover from wildlife to humans or domestic animals requires a series of
conditions to align with space and time. Comparing these conditions between times and …

In Grenada, West Indies, rabies is endemic, and is thought to be maintained in a wildlife
host, the small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) with occasional spillover into …

Background Tropical and zoonotic diseases are major problems in developing countries like
Ecuador. Poorly designed houses, the high proportion of isolated indigenous population …