Information on laboratory practices.

Laboratories answered a questionnaire related to rabies facilities, virus identification by the DFA test or conventional RT-PCR and biosafety measures. Twelve out of fourteen (12/14) laboratories returned the questionnaire, although not all sections were filled in some of them. For relevant factors, association test was applied to statistically evaluate any association with results agreements. None of the evaluated factors were significant (pχ2>0.05).