[Comparison of 4 technics for serologic titration of antibodies against rabies virus in dogs]

Four different serological techniques were used for the determination of antibody levels against rabies virus in 55 vaccinated street dogs: mouse neutralization test (reference), rapid fluorescent focus inhibition test, plaque reduction test and immunoenzymatic test (protein A). The results obtained with each of the last three methods were compared with those obtained with the reference test: correlation coefficients were, respectively, 0.810, 0.812 and 0.682, each being significantly correlated with the others. Therefore the three techniques may each be recommended as an alternative to the mouse neutralization test for routine titrations; the immunoenzymatic method, which titrates not only neutralizing antibodies being, nevertheless, better used as a screening test.