Comparison of Biotinylated Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies in an Evaluation of a Direct Rapid Immunohistochemical Test for the Routine Diagnosis of Rabies in Southern Africa

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Coetzer, Andre ^a   Sabeta, Claude T ^b   Markotter, Wanda ^a   Rupprecht, Charles E ^c   Nel, Louis H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^c ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA; BIOTIN; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; CAT; CATTLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DOG; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; JACKAL; MONGOOSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUTH AFRICA; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BOVINE; CAT DISEASE; CATTLE DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DOG DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; PROCEDURES; RABIES VIRUS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BIOTIN; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; NERVE TISSUE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC;

EID: 84907573597     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003189     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Knobel DL, Cleaveland S, Coleman PG, Fevre EM, Meltzer MI, et al. (2005) Re-evaluating the burden of rabies in Africa and Asia. Bull World Health Organ 83: 360–368.
2. Dietzgen R, Calisher CH, Kurath G, Kuzmin I V, Rodriguez LL, et al. (2011) Rhabdoviridae. In: King AMQ, Adams MJ, Carstens EB, Lefkowitz EJ, editors. Virus taxonomy: ninth report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. San Diego (CA): Elsevier Ltd. pp. 654–681.
3. Nel LH, Markotter W, (2007) Lyssaviruses. Crit Rev Microbiol 33: 301–324.
4. Hemachudha T, Laothamatas J, Rupprecht CE, (2002) Human rabies: a disease of complex neuropathogenetic mechanisms and diagnostic challenges. Lancet Neurol 1: 101–109.
5. Coleman PG, Fevre EM, Cleaveland S, (2004) Estimating the public health impact of rabies. Emerg Infect Dis 10: 140–142.
6. Lembo T, Hampson K, Kaare MT, Ernest E, Knobel DL, et al. (2010) The Feasibility of Canine Rabies Elimination in Africa: Dispelling Doubts with Data. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4: 1–9.
7. Fevre EM, Kaboyo RW, Persson V, Edelsten M, Coleman PG, et al. (2005) The epidemiology of animal bite injuries in Uganda and projections of the burden of rabies. Trop Med Int Heal 10: 790–798.
8. Nel LH, (2013) Discrepancies in Data Reporting for Rabies, Africa. Emerg Infect Dis 19: 529–533 Available: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/4/12-0185_article.htm.
9. Goldwasser RA, Kissling RE, (1958) Fluorescent antibody staining of street and fixed rabies virus antigens. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 98: 219–223.
10. Dean DJ, Abelseth MK, Atanasiu P (1996) The fluorescent antibody test. In: Meslin F-X, Kaplan MM, Koprowski H, editors. Laboratory techniques in rabies. Geneva: World Health Organization. pp. 88–89.
11. Weyer J, Blumberg L, (2007) Rabies: Challenge of Diagnosis in Resource Poor Countries. Infect Dis J Pakistan Brief Comm 86–88.
12. Wacharapluesadee S, Hemachudha T, (2010) Ante- and post-mortem diagnosis of rabies using nucleic acid-amplification tests. Expert Rev Mol Diagnostics 10: 207–218.
13. McElhinney LM, Fooks AR, Radford AD, (2008) Diagnostic tools for the detection of rabies virus. EJCAP 18: 224–231.
14. Durr S, Naissengar S, Mindekem R, Diguimbye C, Niezgoda M, et al. (2008) Rabies diagnosis for developing countries. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2: e206.
15. Coetzer A, Markotter W, Sabeta CT, Nel LH (2013) Comparison of biotinylated monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies in an evaluation of a direct rapid immunohistochemical test for the routine diagnosis of rabies in southern Africa University of Pretoria.
16. Lembo T, Niezgoda M, Velasco-Villa A, Cleaveland S, Ernest E, et al. (2006) Evaluation of a direct, Rapid Immunohistochemical Test for rabies diagnosis. Emerg Infect Dis 12: 310–313.
17. Saturday GA, King R, Fuhrmann L, (2009) Validation and operational application of a rapid method for rabies antigen detection. US Army Med Dep J 42–45.
18. Madhusudana SN, Subha S, Thankappan U, Ashwin YB, (2012) Evaluation of a direct rapid immunohistochemical test (dRIT) for rapid diagnosis of rabies in animals and humans. Virol Sin 27: 299–302.
19. Tao XY, Niezgoda M, Du JL, Li H, Wang XG, et al. (2008) The primary application of direct rapid immunohistochemical test to rabies diagnosis in China. Chinese J Exp Clin Virol 22: 168–170.
20. Dietzschold B, Rupprecht CE, Tollis M, Lafon M, Mattei J, et al. (1988) Antigenic diversity of the glycoprotein and nucleocapsid proteins of rabies and rabies-related viruses: implications for epidemiology and control of rabies. Rev Infect Dis 10 Suppl 4: S785–98 Available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3206089.
21. Sabeta CT, Khaiseb S, Ngeleja-Mpelumbe C, Shumba W (2011) Harmonisation of the fluorescent antibody test (FAT) protocol for use in the SADC countries. Southern and Eastern Africa Rabies Group (SEARG) meeting, Maputo, Mozambique. pp. 1–28.
22. Perrin P (1973) Techniques for the preparation of rabies conjugates. In: Meslin FX, Kaplan MM, Kaprowski H, editors. Laboratory techniques in rabies. Geneva: World Health Organization. pp. 433–441.
23. Bishop GC, Durrheim DN, Kloeck PE, Godlonton JD, Bingham J, et al. (2003) Rabies: Guide for the medical, veterinary and allied professions. 2nd ed. Pretoria: Department of agricultue and department of health.
24. Koprowski H (1996) The mouse inoculation test. In: Meslin FX, Kaplan MM, Koprowski H, editors. Laboratory techniques in rabies. World Health Organization. pp. 80–85.
25. WHO (2005) WHO expert consultation on rabies. WHO Tech Rep Ser 931: 1–121.
26. Markotter W, Kuzmin IV, Rupprecht CE, Randles J, Sabeta CT, et al. (2006) Isolation of Lagos Bat Virus from Water Mongoose. Emerg Infect Dis 12: 1913–1918.
27. Heaton PR, Johnstone P, McElhinney LM, Cowley R, O'Sullivan E, et al. (1997) Heminested PCR assay for detection of six genotypes of rabies and rabies-related viruses. J Clin Microbiol 35: 2762–2766.
28. Coertse J, Weyer J, Nel LH, Markotter W, (2010) Improved PCR methods for detection of African rabies and rabies-related lyssaviruses. J Clin Microbiol 48: 3949–3955.
29. Hall TA, (1999) BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acid Symp 41: 95–98.
30. Smith JS, King AA (1996) Monoclonal antibodies for the identification of rabies and non-rabies lyssaviruses. In: Meslin F-X, Kaplan MM, Koprowski H, editors. Laboratory techniques in rabies. Geneva: World Health Organization. pp. 145–156.
31. Ngoepe EC, Fehlner-Gardiner C, Wandeler AL, Sabeta CT, (2014) Antigenic characterization of lyssaviruses in South Africa. Onderstepoort J Vet Res 81: art.£711 doi: http:/dx.doi.org/10.4102/ojvr.v81i1.711
32. Kgaladi J, Markotter W, Nel LH, (2013) Comparison of pathogenic domains of rabies and African rabies-related lyssaviruses and pathogenicity observed in mice. Onderstepoort J Vet Res 80: 1–13 doi:10.4102/ojvr.v80i1.511
33. Boenisch M (2009) Antibodies. In: Kumar GL, Rudbeck L, editors. Education guide: Immunohistochemical (IHC) Staining Methods. California: DAKO North America. pp. 1–9.
34. Burry RW (2010) Antibodies. Immunocytochemistry: A Practical Guide for Biomedical Research. Ohio, USA: Springer. pp. 7–16.