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Comparison of the FDA-Approved CDC DENV-1-4 Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR with a Laboratory-Developed Assay for Dengue Virus Detection and Serotyping. Journal of clinical microbiology Waggoner, J. J., Abeynayake, J., Sahoo, M. K., Gresh, L., Tellez, Y., Gonzalez, K., Ballesteros, G., Guo, F. P., Balmaseda, A., Karunaratne, K., Harris, E., Pinsky, B. A. 2013; 51 (10): 3418-3420

Abstract

Dengue virus (DENV) is the agent of the most common vector-borne disease worldwide. Using 199 clinical samples collected from Nicaragua and Sri Lanka, a laboratory-developed DENV multiplex real-time reverse transcription-PCR (rRT-PCR) proved more clinically sensitive than the FDA-approved CDC assay for DENV serotypes 1 to 4 when measured against a composite reference standard, with sensitivities of 97.4% versus 87.1%, respectively.

View details for DOI 10.1128/JCM.01359-13

View details for PubMedID 23903549