Volume 12, Number 2—February 2006
Dispatch
Evaluation of a Direct, Rapid Immunohistochemical Test for Rabies Diagnosis
Table 2
Number of Tanzanian brain samples processed by dRIT and DFA for different animal species*
Species | No. brains examined† |
---|---|
Domestic dog | 73 (39) |
Domestic cat | 7 (3) |
Cow | 8 (7) |
Goat | 6 (5) |
Livestock‡ | 1 (1) |
Aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) | 1 |
African civet (Civettictis civetta) | 2 |
Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) | 2 |
Slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus) | 3 |
Dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) | 2 |
White-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda) | 8 (1) |
Mongoose‡ | 2 |
Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) | 3 |
Bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) | 8 |
Black-backed jackal/bat-eared fox‡ | 2 (1) |
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) | 3 |
Small-spotted genet (Genetta genetta) | 7 (1) |
Lion (Panthera leo) | 6 |
Serval (Felis serval) | 1 |
Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) | 12 (1) |
Striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) | 1 |
Zorilla (Ictonyx striatus) | 1 |
Total domestic | 95 (55) |
Total wildlife | 64 (4) |
Total | 159 (59) |
*dRIT, direct immunohistochemical test; DFA, direct fluorescent-antibody assay.
†The number of rabies-positive samples is shown in brackets.
‡Species not definitively identified.