Nono C Sukri, Kanti Laras, Toni Wandra, Sukman Didi, Ria P Larasati, Josef R Rachdyatmaka, Stevie Osok, Petrus Tjia, John M Saragih, Sri Hartati, Erlin Listyaningsih, Kevin R Porter, Charmagne G Beckett, Ingerani S Prawira, Narain Punjabi, Sri A Suparmanto, H James Beecham, Michael J Bangs, Andrew L Corwin
In April 2001, a second suspected outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the easternmost region of Indonesia was investigated in Merauke, a town located in the southeastern corner of Papua, by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2. Principal case criteria of hemorrhagic disease provided for a study enrollment of 15 clinically acute and 37 convalescing subjects. Additionally, 32 comparable age/sex controls were selected from neighboring households. Laboratory diagnosis involved three testing methodologies: virus isolation by cell culture, a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay, and serologic assays...
May 2003: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene