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The paper describes a rabies outbreak in Małopolska voivodeship in 2010 after seven years without of rabies cases in this region, and a phylogenetic study of rabies isolates collected from this area with known variants of rabies virus circulating in Europe. The study excludes implication of rabies vaccine strain, used for oral vaccination of foxes, in the outbreak. The results of phylogenetic investigations revealed the highest similarity of Małopolska isolates to previously established North-Eastern European rabies virus group widely spread in Europe including Poland.