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Posted On : 26 Nov 2003

Which test is more "specific" to the diagnosis of Dengue fever?
How much of importance to be ascribed to do detection of IGM antibody by ELISA in dengue fever?

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ghussai

Isloation of the virus antigen by PCR

21 years ago

Ravindra Bhonsule

virus culture in blood.Not much

21 years ago

Gokhan Aydemir

Hemagglutination-inhibiting and complement-fixing antibodies to dengue antigen.Many rikettsial diseases,meningococsemia,and other severe illness caused by variety of agents may produce a similiar clinical picture the etioligic diagnosis should be made only when epidmioligic or serologic evidence suggests the posibilty of dengue fewer.

21 years ago

Margaret Huang

Well, in my country, DHF is common, and as far as I know IgM detection isn't regularly conducted. The diagnosis is simply made up by thrombocytopenia and Rumpel-Leede test.

21 years ago

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