Evidence of Australian bat lyssavirus infection in diverse Australian bat taxa.

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"Acknowledgement and thanks are due to colleagues at the (then) Queensland Department of Primary Industries Yeerongpilly Veterinary Laboratory and at the CSIRO Animal Health Laboratory. This publication utilises data from my doctoral thesis and, in that context, also warrants acknowledgement of my mentors Simon More (then at the University of Queensland) and the late Chris Baldock, and colleagues Russell Rogers, Kevin Dunn, Ian Douglas and Ron Glanville (then at the Queensland Government Department of Primary Industries). Finally, this publication benefitted from intellectual developments or contributions from both the PREDICT project of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) “Emerging Pandemic Threats” programme (Cooperative Agreement No. AID‐OAA‐A‐14‐00102) and the “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence” project of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (Award No. R01AI110964)."