Table 1.
Number of samples tested by different methods
Figure 1.
Picture of a positive result by the dRIT of a Chadian rabies sample, Magnification 400×.
Figure 2.
Picture of a negative result by the dRIT of a Chadian rabies sample, Magnification 400×.
Table 2.
Characteristics of the 47 rabies suspicious animals
Table 3.
Results of DFA and dRIT by testing 35 fresh samples
Table 4.
Retesting of dRIT and DFA in Chad: Simple Cohen's kappa coefficients calculated by comparing the retesting results with the DFA result of the samples in fresh condition
Table 5.
Retesting of dRIT and DFA at CDC: Simple Cohen's kappa coefficients calculated by comparing the retesting results with the DFA result of the samples in fresh condition
Figure 3.
Phylogenetic tree of representative of all African groups (1, 2 and 3) after Kissi et al. (1995) and SHBRV as a root.
Branch lengths correspond to differences between sequences (scale at the bottom of the figure). Only significant bootstraps values are shown. The samples of our study are labelled as Chad+number.