Maximum clade credibility tree of the cytoplasmic domain of the G-L intergenic region of RABV sequences originating from Zimbabwe and selected neighbouring countries (Zambia and Mozambique).

The scale bar depicts nucleotide substitutions per site (mean: 2,4E-4 substitutions/site) and all branches with a posterior probability of 0.75 or less were collapsed. A sequence from a jackal rabies virus strain from Namibia (192J09) was used to root the tree. The new sequences generated in this study, all clustering within the Africa 1b sub-lineage of the Cosmopolitan clade of RABV, are indicated in a bold font.