Comparison of diagnostic efficacy of rapid diagnostic devices for dengue virus infection--a piolt study.

Background: To compare the diagnostic efficacy of commercially available rapid diagnostic test devices for Dengue serology. To find out the sensitivity and specificity of rapid diagnostic devices with Elisa results as the Gold standard.

Methods: During the dengue virus epidemic in Lahore a pilot study was conducted in order to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of two most frequently used immunochromatographic rapid test devices in public sector hospitals.