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

• Main Authors: Elisa Eggerbauer (Author), Paola de Benedictis (Author), Bernd Hoffmann (Author), Thomas C Mettenleiter (Author), Kore Schlottau (Author), Ernest C Ngoepe (Author), Claude T Sabeta (Author), Conrad M Freuling (Author), Thomas Müller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Rabies is a neglected zoonotic disease that causes an estimated 60,000 human deaths annually. The main burden lies on developing countries in Asia and Africa, where surveillance and disease detection is hampered by absence of adequate laboratory facilities and/or the difficulties of submitting sampl...