INTENDED USE

The Rabies Ab Test is a lateral flow immunochromatographic assay for the qualitative detection of rabies virus antibody (Rabies Ab) above the level 0.5IU/mL in dog’s serum or plasma.

SUMMARY

Rabies is a vital disease to both animal and human beings. Dog or cat could be a carrier without any clinical symptom. Vaccination could be apparently decrease the ratio of carrier and infection of rabies virus. But even after vaccination, there is still about 15% of total cases which could not generate protective antibodies. It is suggested to detect the Rabies antibodies for dogs after 45days vaccination.

PRINCIPLE

The Rabies Virus Antibody Rapid Test is based on sandwich lateral flow immunochromatographic assay. The test device has a testing window for the observation of assay running and result reading. The testing window has an invisible T (test) zone and a C (control) zone before running the assay. When the treated sample was applied into the sample hole on the device, the liquid will laterally flow through the surface of the test strip and react with the pre-coated recombinant antigen. If the Rabies antibodies level is above 0.5IU/mL in the specimen, a visible T line will appear. The C line should always appear after a sample is applied, which indicates a valid result.