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| Specimen | No. specimens |
No. positive
|
No. each dengue virus subtype
|
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELISA | Reverse transcription PCR | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Serum | 36 | 10* | 6† | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Blood spot | 41 | Not applicable | 7‡ | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | ||
*Only 34 serum samples were tested by ELISA; only 1 of the 10 positive samples was also positive by PCR. †Five samples were from male patients. ‡Three samples were from male patients. One patient was co-infected with both serotypes.
