Enabling animal rabies diagnostic in low-access areas: Sensitivity and specificity of a molecular diagnostic test from cerebral tissue dried on filter paper

• Felana Suzah Rasolonjatovo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Rabies National Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medecine, Antananarivo, Madagascar, Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Hélène Guis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: helene.guis@cirad.fr

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar, Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar, ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France, FOFIFA-DRZVP, Antananarivo, Madagascar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0355-0898

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• Malavika Rajeev,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, United States of America

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• Laurent Dacheux,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Lyssavirus Epidemiology and Neuropathology Unit, National Reference Centre for Rabies, WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris, France

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• Lalaina Arivony Nomenjanahary,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rabies National Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Girard Razafitrimo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rabies National Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Jean Théophile Rafisandrantantsoa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rabies National Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Catherine Cêtre-Sossah,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ASTRE, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Montpellier, France, CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, F-97491 Sainte-Clotilde, La Réunion, France

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• Jean-Michel Heraud,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rabies National Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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• Soa Fy Andriamandimby

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rabies National Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

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