Evaluation of Six Commercially Available Rapid Immunochromatographic Tests for the Diagnosis of Rabies in Brain Material

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Eggerbauer, Elisa ^a   de Benedictis, Paola ^b   Hoffmann, Bernd ^a   Mettenleiter, Thomas C ^a   Schlottau, Kore ^a   Ngoepe, Ernest C ^c   Sabeta, Claude T ^c   Freuling, Conrad M ^a   Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie   (Italy)

^c ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; LATERAL FLOW DEVICE; NONHUMAN; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RACCOON; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMMAL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

DIAGNOSTIC KIT; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RNA, VIRAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84978044403     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004776     Document Type: Article

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