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Table 2 Sensitivities of commercial DENV real-time RT-PCR assays against a panel of clinical samples positive with hemi-nested RT-PCR[5, 34]

From: Evaluation of four commercial real-time RT-PCR kits for the detection of dengue viruses in clinical samples

Serotype

N

Geno-sen’s (n (% [95% CI])

Realstar (n (% [95% CI])

Simplexa (n (% [95% CI])

DENV-1

46

42 (91.3 [83.2–99.4])

36 (78.3 [66.3–90.2])

44 (95.7 [89.7–100])

DENV-2

37

33 (89.2 [79.2–99.2])

32 (86.5 [75.5–97.5])

34 (91.9 [83.1–100])

DENV-3

33

30 (90.9 [81.1–100])

30 (90.9 [81.1–100])

30 (90.9 [81.1–100])

DENV-4

46

33 (71.7 [58.7–84.8])

37 (80.4 [68.9–91.9])

43 (93.5 [86.3–100])

Total

162

138 (85.2 [79.7–90.7])

135 (83.3 [77.6–89.1])

151 (93.2 [89.3–97.1])