Validation and Application of a Commercial Quantitative Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase-PCR Assay in Investigation of a Large Dengue Virus Outbreak in Southern Taiwan.

• Egile Nagusiak: Huey-Pin Tsai (Egilea), You-Yuan Tsai (Egilea), I-Ting Lin (Egilea), Pin-Hwa Kuo (Egilea), Kung-Chao Chang (Egilea), Jung-Chin Chen (Egilea), Wen-Chien Ko (Egilea), Jen-Ren Wang (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Accurate, rapid, and early diagnosis of dengue virus (DENV) infections is essential for optimal clinical care. Here, we evaluated the efficacy of the quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR)-LightMix dengue virus EC kit for DENV detection using samples from a dengue outbreak in Taiwan in 2015...