Correction to: Trop Med Health 47, 55 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-019-0182-5

The authors would like to clarify that, at the time the study was conducted and completed, the primary affiliation of Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh was Pasteur Institute of Iran, Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Tehran, Iran. Fatemeh Jahanbakhsh left the institute in 2018 while the authors were submitting this article [1] for publication and her current affiliation is Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. The authors would also like to acknowledge that the map presented in the figure of 2 of the article was taken (with modification) from d-maps [2].