Diagnostic performance of the WHO definition of probable dengue within the first 5 days of symptoms on Reunion Island.

ABSTRACT: The relevance of the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for defining probable dengue had not yet been evaluated in the context of dengue endemicity on Reunion Island. The objective of this retrospective diagnostic study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of the 2009 WHO definition of probable dengue and to propose an improvement thereof. From the medical database, we retrieved the data of subjects admitted to the emergency department of the University Hospital of Reunion Island in 2019 with suspected dengue fever (DF) within a maximum of 5 days post symptom onset, and whose diagnosis was confirmed by a Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). The intrinsic characteristics of probable dengue definitions were reported in terms of sensitivity, specificity, posit

SUBMITTER: Diarra YM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10868786 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature