Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Sep 1997)

Diagnosis of Dengue by Using Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction

  • Marize Pereira Miagostovich,
  • Flávia Barreto dos Santos,
  • Eliane Saraiva M de Araújo,
  • Juarez Dias,
  • Hermann G Schatzmayr,
  • Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761997000500006
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 92, no. 5
p. 595

Abstract

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A rapid identification of dengue viruses from clinical samples by using a nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) procedure was carried out for diagnostic and epidemiological purposes. RT-PCR identified DEN-1 and DEN-2 viruses in 41% (41/100) of previously confirmed cases and provided an accurate confirmation of DHF in four fatal cases. RT-PCR was also useful for detecting and typing dengue viruses in suspected cases, allowing a rapid identification of new serotypes in endemic areas

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