Evaluation of two new commercial tests for the diagnosis of acute dengue virus infection using NS1 antigen detection in human serum.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Philippe Dussart, Laure Petit, Bhety Labeau, Laetitia Bremand, Alexandre Leduc, David Moua, Séverine Matheus, Laurence Baril
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Brisbane
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000280; https://doaj.org/article/ac81e383b7f04eb4bc81f3c09f496e9e

Background We compared the performance of two new commercial tests for the detection of dengue NS1 protein during the clinical phase of dengue virus (DENV) infection-an immunochromatographic test allowing rapid detection of the NS1 antigen, Dengue NS1 Ag STRIP (Bio-Rad Laboratories - Marnes La Coque...