Volume 12, Number 2—February 2006
Dispatch
Evaluation of a Direct, Rapid Immunohistochemical Test for Rabies Diagnosis
Table 1
Methods of sample preservation and number of samples processed*
Preservation | No. washes in PBS | No. samples tested |
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dRIT field | dRIT CDC | DFA test CDC | ||
Group A. glycerol saline/frozen/glycerol saline | 2 | 44 | 39 | 44 |
Group B. frozen/glycerol saline | 1 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Group C. glycerol saline | 1 | 0 | 89 | 89 |
Group D. frozen | 0 | 0 | 16 | 16 |
*dRIT, direct rapid immunohistochemical test; PBS, phosphate-buffered saline; DFA, direct fluorescent-antibody assay; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.