Active sero-survey for European bat lyssavirus type-1 circulation in North African insectivorous bats

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the National Park of Aigüestortes i Estany de SantMaurici (Lleida, Spain), the Conselleria de Medi Ambient, Agricultura i Pesca (Govern de les Illes Balears, Spain), the Natural Park of Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac (Barcelona, Spain), the Malgrat de Mar City Council, the National Park of Chréa (Algeria), the National Park of Béjaia (Algeria) and Dr. Ahmim Mourad for their precious the contribution during field work. This work was funded by the EU FP6 program, Project RABMEDCONTROL, (http://www.rabmedcontrol.org) and FP7 for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 278433 PREDEMICS (“Preparedness, Prediction and Prevention of Emerging Zoonotic Viruses with Pandemic Potential using Multidisciplinary Approaches”).

Author contributions

Conceived and designed the project: JS-C, HB, CB. Performed fieldwork: ML-R, EA, MEH, AAS, DS, SGER, HYH, AHZ, BH, SEA, BW, MAN, AElZ JS-C. Performed the analysis: HB, RL, PDB, FM, BZ. Wrote the paper: JS-C, HB, ML-R, CB, PDB.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Supplementary Information

Supplementary Information accompanies this paper at (10.1038/s41426-018-0214-y).

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