More accurate insight into the incidence of human rabies in developing countries through validated laboratory techniques

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Dacheux, Laurent ^a   Wacharapluesadee, Supaporn ^b   Hemachudha, Thiravat ^b   Meslin, François Xavier ^c   Buchy, Philippe ^d   Reynes, Jean Marc ^e   Bourhy, Hervé ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b KING CHULALONGKORN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^c Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

^e Centre Pasteur du Cameroun   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; VIROLOGY;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 78649799818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000765     Document Type: Article

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