Abstract
A tissue culture system for detecting rabies virus from saliva samples of suspected animals was developed and compared to suckling mouse inoculation. Swab samples were obtained from the mouth of the animal heads received for rabies diagnosis; these swabs were submerged in maintenance medium. The maintenance medium was inoculated intracerebrally into suckling mice and onto BHK-21 cells with diethylaminoethyl (DEAE)-dextran (BHK/DEAE) and without (BHK). Rabies immunofluorescence was performed on the brain of the mice dying during the observation period and also on both tissue culture systems every day after infection. The BHK-DEAE system detected 28 positive samples obtained from 48 rabid animals and the BHK system detected 18. By suckling mouse inoculation only 11 of the same positive samples were detected. A total of 90 samples was studied by the three methods. Rabies virus was detected by the tissue culture methods earlier than by suckling mouse inoculation. The BHK-DEAE method was an economic and fast method for rabies virus detection in saliva samples, which could be used for ecological and pathogenesis studies, as well for rabies diagnosis before the death of the suspected animal.
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