Correction to: Mathematical modelling and phylodynamics for the study of dog rabies dynamics and control: A scoping review (PLoS Negl Trop Dis)

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There is an error in the Data Availability Statement. The Data Availability statement should read as follows: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files. Supporting Information files are also available online at https://mlayan.github.io/RabiesScopingReview/ and archived on the open-access repository Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4743553). On page 9, the third sentence of the penultimate paragraph should cite reference 41 rather than reference 65 in the third clause. The correct sentence should read: A phylodynamic study at the global scale showed that host shifts from dogs to wildlife with adaptation to the new host were common in RABV history [65], which may explain why different lineages circulate in dogs and wild foxes in Brazil [61], in dogs and ferret badgers in Asia [41] and in dogs and mongooses in South Africa [65] with rare interspecies transmission events. 41. Huang J, Ruan S, Shu Y, Wu X. Modeling the Transmission Dynamics of Rabies for Dog, Chinese Ferret Badger and Human Interactions in Zhejiang Province, China. Bull Math Biol. 2019; 81: 939–962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-018-00537-1 PMID: 30536160 In footnotes a and b of Table 1, the citations of references 67, 68, and 70 should be replaced with references 68, 69, and 71. The correct sentences in footnote a should read: Brunker et al. [69], Tian et al. [77], and Dellicour et al. [71] estimated the mean branch velocity using continuous phylogeographic reconstructions. Finally, Dellicour et al. [68] estimated the temporal evolution of the wavefront velocity that corresponds to the distance between the reconstructed epidemic origin and the maximal epidemic wavefront. While the mean branch velocity (v) and diffusion coefficient (D) are estimates of the dispersal velocity and of the diffusion coefficient averaged over all tree branches, respectively, their weighted average counterparts involve a weighting by branch time resulting in lower-variance estimates [71]. The correct sentences in footnote b should read: Brunker et al. [69] parametrized a generalized linear model (GLM) in a discrete phylogeographic framework with resistance distances derived from landscape data between clusters of rabies cases. Dellicour et al. [68] and Tian et al. [77] assessed which environmental factors are associated with RABV velocity using continuous phylogeographic inference and post hoc statistical analyses. Dellicour et al. [71] and Tian et al. [77] also identified factors associated with the direction of spread using phylogeographic reconstructions and subsequent post hoc analyses. 68. Dellicour S, Rose R, Faria NR, Vieira LFP, Bourhy H, Gilbert M, et al. Using Viral Gene Sequences to Compare and Explain the Heterogeneous Spatial Dynamics of Virus Epidemics. Mol Biol Evol. 2017; 34: 2563–2571. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx176 PMID: 28651357.