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

• Main Authors: Philippe Dussart (Author), Laure Petit (Author), Bhety Labeau (Author), Laetitia Bremand (Author), Alexandre Leduc (Author), David Moua (Author), Séverine Matheus (Author), Laurence Baril (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>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 Laboratori...