Complete genomic sequence of rabies virus from an ethiopian wolf

Denise A Marston; Emma L Wise; Richard J Ellis; Lorraine M McElhinney; Ashley C Banyard; Nicholas Johnson; Asefa Deressa; Fekede Regassa; Xavier de Lamballerie; Anthony R Fooks; Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00157-15

Complete genomic sequence of rabies virus from an ethiopian wolf

Genome Announc. 2015 Mar 26;3(2):e00157-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00157-15.

Authors

Denise A Marston¹, Emma L Wise², Richard J Ellis³, Lorraine M McElhinney, Ashley C Banyard², Nicholas Johnson², Asefa Deressa⁴, Fekede Regassa⁵, Xavier de Lamballerie⁶, Anthony R Fooks, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri

Affiliations

¹ Wildlife Zoonoses & Vector-Borne Diseases Research Group, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Surrey, United Kingdom denise.marston@apha.gsi.gov.uk.
² Wildlife Zoonoses & Vector-Borne Diseases Research Group, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Surrey, United Kingdom.
³ Specialist Scientific Support Department, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Surrey, United Kingdom.
⁴ Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁵ Ethiopian Wildlife conservation Authority, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ UMR_D 190, Emergence de Pathologies Virales, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France.

Abstract

Ethiopian wolves are the rarest canid in the world, with only 500 found in the Ethiopian highlands. Rabies poses the most immediate threat to their survival, causing epizootic cycles of mass mortality. The complete genome sequence of a rabies virus (RABV) derived from an Ethiopian wolf during the most recent epizootic is reported here.