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Volume 23, Number 9—September 2017
Research

Processes Underlying Rabies Virus Incursions across US–Canada Border as Revealed by Whole-Genome Phylogeography

Hannah Trewby, Susan A. Nadin-Davis, Leslie A. Real, and Roman BiekComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (H. Trewby, L.A. Real); University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (H. Trewby, R. Biek); Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (S.A. Nadin-Davis)

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Figure 3

Locations of sequenced samples from Canada outbreaks of raccoon-specific variant of rabies virus infection in western Ontario (n = 1), eastern Ontario (n = 56), Quebec (n = 51), and New Brunswick (n = 32); and from the United States within 75 km of the border in western New York (n = 23), northwestern New York (n = 29, including 5 samples into clade I, indicated by squares), and Vermont (n = 64, including 2 samples from New York that grouped within this clade, indicated by squares); and from thr

Figure 3. Locations of sequenced samples from Canada outbreaks of raccoon-specific variant of rabies virus infection in western Ontario (n = 1), eastern Ontario (n = 56), Quebec (n = 51), and New Brunswick (n = 32); and from the United States within 75 km of the border in western New York (n = 23), northwestern New York (n = 29, including 5 samples into clade I, indicated by squares), and Vermont (n = 64, including 2 samples from New York that grouped within this clade, indicated by squares); and from throughout Maine (n = 33). Map generated by using ggmap package (20). NB, New Brunswick; ON, Ontario; QC, Quebec.

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