From Field Tests to Molecular Tools—Evaluating Diagnostic Tests to Improve Rabies Surveillance in Namibia
2023
Freuling, Conrad Martin | van der Westhuizen, Jolandie | Khaiseb, Siegfried | Tenzin, Tenzin | Müller, Thomas
Rabies is endemic in Namibia and is present both in wildlife carnivores and domestic free-roaming dogs. The disease thus represents a challenge for public human and veterinary disease control. Namibia has implemented a national strategic plan to control rabies and the country’s activities are supported by international organizations. To this end, rabies diagnosis at the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) was improved in the frame of a World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) laboratory twinning program: from practical sampling techniques and the use of lateral flow devices to a novel universal and discriminatory quantitative real-time Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), which easily identify dog-associated rabies viruses. The procedures applied and the results can be used as a template to improve rabies laboratory diagnosis.
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الناشر MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
الرقم التسلسلي المعياري الدولي (ردمد) 1999-4915تم تزويد هذا السجل من قبل Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut