Comparative evaluation of various commercial assays for diagnosis of dengue fever.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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2001 Sep; 32(3): 472-5
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in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-35878
ABSTRACT
Dengue fever (DF) is endemic in India and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has been reported with increasing frequency in the last decade. We evaluated three commercial assays for detection of antibodies to dengue virus, to assess their performance in a diagnostic laboratory. Sera from 58 patients collected during a febrile outbreak in New Delhi in 1997 were studied. The methods evaluated were MRL Diagnostic Dengue Fever Virus IgM Capture ELISA, Pan Bio Dengue Duo IgM and IgG Capture ELISA and Pan Bio Rapid Immunochromatographic test. The MRL ELISA correctly identified 97.8% (43 of 44) of samples as dengue positive while the Pan Bio Duo ELISA and Pan Bio RIT identified 95.45% (42 of 44). The sensitivities of both Pan Bio Duo ELISA and Pan Bio RIT for primary dengue and secondary dengue were 100% and 93.54% respectively. The specificity of three assays were MRL IgM ELISA 100%, Pan Bio Duo ELISA 92.8% and Pan Bio RIT 85.7%.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
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Humans
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Disease Outbreaks
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Sensitivity and Specificity
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Dengue
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Dengue Virus
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India
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Evaluation studies
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Prognostic study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
Year:
2001
Type:
Article
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