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Volume 22, Number 7—July 2016
Dispatch

Single-Reaction Multiplex Reverse Transcription PCR for Detection of Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue Viruses

Jesse J. Waggoner, Lionel Gresh, Alisha Mohamed-Hadley, Gabriela Ballesteros, Maria Jose Vargas Davila, Yolanda Tellez, Malaya K. Sahoo, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris, and Benjamin A. PinskyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA (J.J. Waggoner, A. Mohamed-Hadley, M.K. Sahoo, B.A. Pinsky); Sustainable Sciences Institute, Managua, Nicaragua (L. Gresh); Laboratory Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico y Referencia of the Ministry of Health, Managua (G. Ballesteros, M.J. Vargas Davila, Y. Tellez, A. Balmaseda); School of Public Health of the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (E. Harris)

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Table 1

Comparison of DENV and CHIKV detection in the ZCD assay and pan–DENV-CHIKV rRT-PCR*

ZCD assay
 pan–DENV-CHIKV rRT-PCR
DENV Detection
 CHIKV Detection
Pos Neg Total Pos Neg Total
Pos 55 5 60 113 23 136
Neg 3 153 156 12 68 80
Total 58 158 216 125 91 216

*CHIKV, chikungunya virus; DENV, dengue virus; neg, negative; pos, positive; rRT-PCR, real-time reverse transcription PCR; ZCD assay, single-reaction multiplex rRT-PCR for Zika virus, CHIKV, and DENV.

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