Table 6.
The number of dengue cases reported in rural and urban areas of the Nagapattinam district and the various diagnostic tools used to confirm them.
Location | Diagnostic tools |
Total | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NS1 RDT | NS1 ELISA | IgM RDT | IgM ELISA | IgG RDT | IgG ELISA | ||
Rural | 235 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 258 |
Urban | 262 | 5 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 298 |
Total | 556 |
ELISA = enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Ig = immunoglobulin; NS1 = nonstructural Protein 1; RDT = rapid diagnostic test.