The need for a validated diagnostic test for dengue virus infection for clinical and ... Four rapid IgM-based kits have been evaluated. Their sensitivities ranged from 21%–99% and their ...

A deadly disease is on the rise: dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that already affects millions ... A model like this could help test treatments faster, cheaper, and more ethically than animal ...

Antibody (Ab)-dependent enhancement of infection occurs when preexisting antibodies present in the body from a primary (first) dengue virus (DENV) infection bind to an infecting DENV particle ...

The department is urging health care providers to test all persons with ... there have only been three local dengue outbreaks, with local transmission of the dengue virus, in nearly 80 years.