Multi-annual performance evaluation of laboratories in post-mortem diagnosis of animal rabies: Which techniques lead to the most reliable results in practice?

• Emmanuelle Robardet ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: emmanuelle.robardet@anses.fr

  Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife–WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Management in Zoonoses Control; OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies Serology—Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, Malzéville, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0214-4716

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• Alexandre Servat,

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

  Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife–WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Management in Zoonoses Control; OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies Serology—Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, Malzéville, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4753-6614

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• Jonathan Rieder,

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

  Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife–WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Management in Zoonoses Control; OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies Serology—Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, Malzéville, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6126-9199

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• Evelyne Picard-Meyer,

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

  Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife–WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Management in Zoonoses Control; OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies Serology—Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, Malzéville, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9122-9027

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• Florence Cliquet

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ANSES, Nancy Laboratory for Rabies and Wildlife–WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Management in Zoonoses Control; OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies; European Union Reference Laboratory for Rabies Serology—Bâtiment H, Technopôle Agricole et Vétérinaire, Malzéville, France

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