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Volume 9, Number 6—June 2003
Dispatch

Laboratory Surveillance of Dengue in Argentina, 1995–2001

Gabriela Avilés*Comments to Author , Maria Valeria Paz*, Griselda Rangeon†, Marie Y. Ranaivoarisoa‡, Nora Verzeri§, Sandra Roginski¶, Pablo Baroni*, and Delia Enria*
Author affiliations: *Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas (INEVH), Pergamino, Argentina; †Ministerio de Salud, Salta, Argentina; ‡Ministerio de Salud, Formosa, Argentina; §Ministerio de Salud, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ¶Ministerio de Salud, Misiones, Argentina

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Table 2

Indigenous dengue virus cases in Argentina, 1997–2001a

Year Province MAC-ELISAb PRNTb HIb Viral isolates + ampliconsb DENV
serotype b Totalb by all techniques
1997
Salta
19/387
18/19
ND
1/36
DENV-2
19/404
1998
Salta
359/589
139/143
79/80
5/112
DENV-2
378/701

Several
0/438
0/56
ND
ND

0/457
1999
Salta
5/55
1/1
ND
0/15

5/55

Several
0/171
0/14
ND
0/4

0/173
2000
Jujuy
2/63
ND
2/2
2/7
DENV-1
6/72

Formosa
37/89
1/31
8/21
7/57
DENV-1
50/195

Misiones
229/442
ND
25/27
9/25
DENV-1
238/469

Several
0/223
ND
0/19
0/20

0/249
2001
Several
0/176
ND
0/2
0/46

0/212
Total 651/2,633 159/264 114/151 24/322 696/2,987c

aDENV, dengue fever virus; MAC-ELISA, immunoglobulin M antibody capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; PRNT, plaque reduction neutralization test; HI, hemagglutination inhibition test; ND, not done.
bPositive/tested.
cSome samples were tested by only one technique, others were tested by two or more techniques; thus, these numbers do not represent the total obtained by adding the rows.

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