An inter-laboratory trial as a tool to increase rabies diagnostic capabilities of Sub-Saharan African Veterinary laboratories

• Morgane Gourlaouen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4968-9756

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• Angélique Angot,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory Unit—Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES), Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-UN), Rome, Italy

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• Marzia Mancin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Risk Analysis and Public Health Department, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

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• Charles Bebay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Baba Soumaré,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-UN), Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), Accra, Ghana

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• Francesca Ellero,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

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• Barbara Zecchin,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

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• Stefania Leopardi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

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• Cristian De Battisti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy, Laboratory Unit—Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES), Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-UN), Rome, Italy

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• Calogero Terregino,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

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• Paola De Benedictis

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pdebenedictis@izsvenezie.it

  Affiliation FAO and National Reference Centre for Rabies, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diseases at the Animal-Human Interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-1933

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