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The document outlines the procedures for collecting and transporting rabies specimens, emphasizing the importance of using fresh, non-fixed brain tissue from euthanized animals. It details specific requirements for submitting various animal types, including dogs, cats, ferrets, and bats, particularly in cases of exposure to humans or abnormal behavior. The document also provides guidelines for packaging and shipping specimens to the Indiana State Department of Health Laboratories, along with reporting protocols for test results.

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What is the specimen collection for rabies?

Fresh tissue samples from the central nervous system (brain) should be submitted. Postmortem diagnosis of rabies is made by immunofluorescent staining of viral antigen in touch impressions of the medulla (brain stem), the cerebellum, and the hippocampus. Fresh, non-formalin-fixed tissues are preferred.

What is the clinical name for rabies?

Rabies is also known as hydrophobia. Rabies is a viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other warm-blooded animals. Hydrophobia fear of water is the historic name for rabies.

What is the clinical form of rabies?

Clinical rabies in people can be managed but very rarely cured, and not without severe neurological deficits. There are two forms of rabies: Furious rabies results in hyperactivity, excitable behaviour, hallucinations, lack of coordination, hydrophobia (fear of water) and aerophobia (fear of drafts or of fresh air).