Virological diagnosis of dengue fever in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Comparison between RT-PCR and virus isolation in cell culture
Esam Azhar1*, Moujahed Kao1, Matthias Niedrig2, Badr Masri1, Azad Godus1, Raed Badierah1, Nassem Khan3, Adnan Almazrooa4, Ahmad Ashshi5 and Ghazi Jamjoom1
1Special Infectious Agents Unit, Bio-safety level - 3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box: 128442, Jeddah-21362, Saudi Arabia.
2Robert Koch-Institute, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Department, Nordufer 20, 13355 Berlin /Germany.
3Division of Rheumatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Mail Slot - 509, 4301 West Markham, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
4Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
5Medical Laboratory Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
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