♦ 20 March 2015 ♦ 

This book is the second volume of the edition of “Current Laboratory Techniques in Rabies Diagnosis, Research and Prevention”. The overall objective is to provide updated information on techniques, including reference methods, to detect lyssaviruses and also to supply resources for those involved in rabies management and research, both for animal and human rabies. These books are very useful for rabies laboratory workers involved in rabies surveillance and oral vaccination monitoring by using reference tests for rabies diagnosis, serology and potency testing of vaccines as well as for scientists willing to design new tools. Recent methods and novel approaches are also detailed in the books.

Most of the methods are clearly described following a template of laboratory protocol or routine Standard Operating Procedure. For each method, a list of the equipment, materials and reagents is generally detailed and a discussion debates the critical parameters and troubleshooting, precautions for health safety, alternative methods (if any), advantages and limitations of the method and the perspectives for the future.

Contains and list of contributors can be found here (books.google.fr).