Estudo comparativo entre as técnicas de coloração de Sellers, imunofluorescência direta e inoculação em camundongos aplicadas ao diagnóstico laboratorial da raiva canina

A comparative study was made with three techniques Sellers staining, direct immunofluorescence, and mice inoculation used in the laboratory of rabies diagnosis practice and applied on 2.242 samples of dog brains which were sent to the Pasteur Institute of Sao Paulo from January 1974 to April 1976. The mice inoculation and direct immunofluorescence techniques were the ones which presented higher degree of sensitivity; this association resulted in a greater rapport and a higher significative value for the X 2 (chi-square). The Sellers staining technique resulted in a lower degree of sensitivity, and its association with the direct immunofluorescence and mice inoculation techniques gave lower results of rapport and X 2 (chi-square) than those obtained by the association of the two latter techniques