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Dengue fever tests A few tests can help your doctor diagnose dengue fever, such as: Serologic or antibody tests.These tests check a sample of your blood for antibodies, which are proteins your immune system makes against viruses such as dengue virus. The MAC-ELISA test detects proteins that ...
Molecular Diagnostic Tool for Dengue As mentioned earlier, the trend of using a molecular-based diagnostic tool such as PCR-based test kits has become the new approach for early diagnosis of dengue. There have been many reports recently on using PCR techniques for diagnosis of dengue. Most of ...
Certain lab tests are suggested by your doctor to find evidence of the virus causing breakbone fever. But, some tests can take a longer time to come back. The test suggested are: Total White Blood Cells Count You need to provide a blood sample to detect the total white blood cell count...
BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- China has released protocols for measles, dengue fever, and human infection with the avian influenza virus as part of its efforts to standardize the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases, the National Health Commission said Monday. ...
Clinical features and diagnosis Dengue feveris clinically characterized by acute fever, myalgia, arthralgia, and petechiae. Routine laboratory findings are leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and lymphocytosis. Abnormal liver function tests occur in more than half the patients, sometimes with enlarged liver, whic...
ProDetectTM Dengue Duo NS1 Ag & IgG/IgM Rapid Test is a rapid immunochromatographic test for the visual screening of dengue NS1 antigen and IgG/IgM antibodies in human whole blood, serum or plasma as an aid in the diagnosis of dengue infection.ProDetectTM Dengue Duo NS1 Ag & IgG/IgM Rap...
An estimated three-fourths of dengue infections are asymptomatic—meaning the majority of people who get dengue will never know they had it. There are tests that can tell you, but they are relatively expensive, not sufficiently accurate (they can’t reliably distinguish Zika from dengue, for ins...
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Until now, it's been rather difficult to say for sure whether someone is suffering from dengue fever or whether they've contracted another flavivirus, such as yellow fever, West Nile virus or TBEV (tick-borne encephalitis virus). There are already tests on the market, but none of them can...