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Enhanced Rabies Surveillance Using a Direct Rapid Immunohistochemical Test
Published on: April 30, 2019
Evaluation of a direct, rapid immunohistochemical test for rabies diagnosis
Tiziana Lembo1, Michael Niezgoda, Andrés Velasco-Villa
1University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 24, 2006
Abstract:
A direct rapid immunohistochemical test (dRIT) was evaluated under field and laboratory conditions to detect rabies virus antigen in frozen and glycerol-preserved field brain samples from northwestern Tanzania. Compared to the direct fluorescent antibody test, the traditional standard in rabies diagnosis, the dRIT was 100% sensitive and specific.

