Abstract
Re: Letter to the Editor in Response to 'Molecular detection of rabies virus strain with N-gene that clustered with China lineage 2 co-circulating with Africa lineages in Monrovia, Liberia: first reported case in Africa'.
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Sir, We are pleased that our article has stimulated a letter to the Editor by Zhao and colleagues, and that they have contributed to the goal of stepwise action for improving rabies surveillance in Liberia
Because a majority of the documented clinical rabies cases in the human population of the country had underlying dog bite histories [1,2,3], we hypothesised that dog-adapted Rabies lyssavirus (RABV) strains are responsible for enzootic rabies in Liberia [4]
We confirmed this with our report of the first GenBank deposition of a RABV from Liberia, and it was a transcontinental strain of RABV genotype 1 (GenBank accession number: MF765758), co-circulating with Africa lineages in the national capital, Monrovia [4]
Summary
We are pleased that our article has stimulated a letter to the Editor by Zhao and colleagues, and that they have contributed to the goal of stepwise action for improving rabies surveillance in Liberia. We confirmed this with our report of the first GenBank deposition of a RABV from Liberia, and it was a transcontinental strain of RABV genotype 1 (GenBank accession number: MF765758), co-circulating with Africa lineages in the national capital, Monrovia [4].
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