Multi-annual performance evaluation of laboratories in post-mortem diagnosis of animal rabies: Which techniques lead to the most reliable results in practice?

• Main Authors: Emmanuelle Robardet (Author), Alexandre Servat (Author), Jonathan Rieder (Author), Evelyne Picard-Meyer (Author), Florence Cliquet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rabies diagnosis proficiency tests on animal specimens using four techniques (FAT, RTCIT, conventional RT-PCR and real-time RT-PCR) were organised over 10 years (2009-2019). Seventy-three laboratories, of which 59% were from Europe, took part. As the panels were prepared with experimentally-infected...