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

Patient Pati Pyana (1, 2) , Céline Mbilo (3, 4) , Julien Lannoy (5, 6, 7) , Simon Bonas (5, 6, 7) , Bobo Luntadila (1) , Jean Baptiste Kabongo (2) , Ipos Ngayi Lukusa (1) , Leonard Ntunuanga , Jakob Zinsstag (3, 4) , Stephanie Mauti (5, 6, 7) , Laurent Dacheux (5, 6, 7)

1 INRB - Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale [Kinshasa]
2 Université Pédagogique Nationale de Kinshasa
3 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute [Basel]
4 Unibas - Université de Bâle = University of Basel = Basel Universität
5 Lyssavirus, épidémiologie et neuropathologie - Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology
6 CNR - Centre National de Référence de la Rage - National Reference Center Rabies
7 CC-OMS / WHO-CC - Centre collaborateur de l'OMS - Rage / World Health Organization Collaboration Centres - Rabies

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.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]; Virologie

Patient Pati Pyana, Céline Mbilo, Julien Lannoy, Simon Bonas, Bobo Luntadila, et al.. Nearly Complete Genome Sequences of Eight Rabies Virus Strains Obtained from Domestic Carnivores in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2022, 11 (1), pp.e0110921. ⟨10.1128/MRA.01109-21⟩. ⟨pasteur-04102989⟩