AAHR	All-animal-per-human testing rate
ACGT	African Centre for Gene Technologies
AIC	Akaike’s Information Criterion
ARC-OVR	Agricultural Research Council—Onderstepoort Veterinary Research
BEAGLE	Broad-platform Evolutionary Analysis General Likelihood Evaluator
BEAST	Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees
cDNA	Complementary DNA
CDV	Canine Distemper Virus
DALRRD	Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
DAHR	Domestic-animal-per-human testing rate
DD	Decimal degree
DFAT	Direct Fluorescent Antibody Test
DNA	Deoxyribonucleic acid
DRIT	Direct Rapid Immunohistochemical Test
EDTA	Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
EtOH	Ethanol
FABI	Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute
GARC	Global Alliance for Rabies Control
GPS	Global Positioning System
GTR + G	General Time Reversible model with Gamma distribution
H2O	Water
HDR	Human-to-dog ratio
km	Kilometre
km2	Square kilometre
LFD	Lateral flow device
MAINL	Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resource and Livestock
MCMC	Markov Chain Monte Carlo
MEGA11	Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 11
min	Minute
ml	Milliliter
NaOAc	Sodium acetate
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
nt	Nucleotides
PEP	Post-exposure prophylaxis
PCR	Polymerase chain reaction
PoC	Point of Care
Q1	First quartile
QGIS	Quantum Geographic Information System
RABV	Rabies virus
RAIDER	Rapid In-field Diagnosis and Epidemiology of Rabies
RCS	Rabies Case Surveillance
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
RR	Relative risk
SA	South Africa
sec	Second
TAD-P	Transboundary Animal Diseases Programme
URT	United Republic of Tanzania
USA	United States of America
WAP	World Animal Protection
WGS	Whole genome sequencing
WHO	World Health Organization
ZCVL	Zanzibar Central Veterinary Laboratory