Product Description :

Dengue fever is an acute illness caused by an infection of dengue viruses (DENV 1 to 4). It is a mosquito-borne viral disease occurring in the areas of tropical Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas. The virus is transmitted by mosquitoes of the daytime-biting Stegomyia family, principally female mosquito species Aedes aegypti and, less commonly, Aedes albopictus. An estimated 100 million cases of dengue fever and 250,000 cases of life- threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever occur annually on a worldwide basis. Serological detection of dengue NS1 antigen is the most common method for the diagnosis of acute dengue virus infection. Lately, detection of antigens, such as dengue NS1, released during virus replication in the infected patient showed very promising results; it enables diagnosis from the first day after the onset of fever up to day 9 once the clinical phase of the disease is over, thus, allowing early detection and prompt treatment. SIMPLE Dengue NS1 Antigen RAPID Test Kit detects all four serotype dengue NS1 antigens in human serum, plasma or whole blood. It can be performed within 20 minutes by minimally skilled personnel and without the use of laboratory equipment.