Volume 12, Number 2—February 2006
Dispatch
Evaluation of a Direct, Rapid Immunohistochemical Test for Rabies Diagnosis
Table 2
Number of Tanzanian brain samples processed by dRIT and DFA for different animal species*
| Species | No. brains examined† |
|---|---|
| Domestic dog | 73 (39) |
| Domestic cat | 7 (3) |
| Cow | 8 (7) |
| Goat | 6 (5) |
| Livestock‡ | 1 (1) |
| Aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) | 1 |
| African civet (Civettictis civetta) | 2 |
| Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) | 2 |
| Slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus) | 3 |
| Dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) | 2 |
| White-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda) | 8 (1) |
| Mongoose‡ | 2 |
| Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) | 3 |
| Bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) | 8 |
| Black-backed jackal/bat-eared fox‡ | 2 (1) |
| Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) | 3 |
| Small-spotted genet (Genetta genetta) | 7 (1) |
| Lion (Panthera leo) | 6 |
| Serval (Felis serval) | 1 |
| Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) | 12 (1) |
| Striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) | 1 |
| Zorilla (Ictonyx striatus) | 1 |
| Total domestic | 95 (55) |
| Total wildlife | 64 (4) |
| Total | 159 (59) |
*dRIT, direct immunohistochemical test; DFA, direct fluorescent-antibody assay.
†The number of rabies-positive samples is shown in brackets.
‡Species not definitively identified.
