Rabies virus (RABV) causes a zoonotic disease known as rabies that affects humans and mammals. With a genome length of 12 kb, RABV is classified as a non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA virus that encodes five different structural proteins. The nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), and large RNA polymerase protein (L) forms ribonucleoprotein (RNP); together with the viral genome it serves …