Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of Eight Rabies Virus Strains Obtained from Domestic Carnivores in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Patient Pati Pyana; Céline Mbilo; Julien Lannoy; Simon Bonas; Bobo Luntadila; Jean Baptiste Kabongo; Ipos Ngayi Lukusa; Leonard Ntunuanga; Jakob Zinsstag; Stephanie Mauti; Laurent Dacheux

doi:10.1128/MRA.01109-21

Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of Eight Rabies Virus Strains Obtained from Domestic Carnivores in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Jan 20;11(1):e0110921. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01109-21. Epub 2022 Jan 6.

Authors

Patient Pati Pyana^{1

2}, Céline Mbilo^{3

4}, Julien Lannoy⁵, Simon Bonas⁵, Bobo Luntadila¹, Jean Baptiste Kabongo², Ipos Ngayi Lukusa¹, Leonard Ntunuanga⁶, Jakob Zinsstag^{3

4}, Stephanie Mauti⁵, Laurent Dacheux⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Laboratoire de la Rage, Gombe, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
² Université Pédagogique Nationale de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
³ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Unit Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology, National Reference Center for Rabies, WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France.
⁶ Division Provinciale de Pêche et Elevage, Matadi, Province du Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Abstract

In this report, we describe eight nearly complete genome sequences of rabies virus strains collected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from domestic carnivores in 2017 and 2018. All of them clustered into a specific phylogroup among the Africa 1b lineage in the Cosmopolitan clade.

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