Letter to the editor: False-positive results with rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for dengue

Emilie Javelle; Philippe Gautret; Isabelle Leparc-Goffart

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Letter to the editor: False-positive results with rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for dengue
Emilie Javelle¹ , Philippe Gautret² , Isabelle Leparc-Goffart^3,4
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Affiliations: ¹ Laveran Military Teaching Hospital, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France ² IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France ³ IRBA, Unité de virologie, CNR des Arbovirus, Marseille, France ⁴ Unité des Virus Emergents, Aix-Marseille Univ, IRD 190, Inserm 1207, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France

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Citation style for this article: Javelle Emilie, Gautret Philippe, Leparc-Goffart Isabelle. Letter to the editor: False-positive results with rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) for dengue. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(21):pii=1900304. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.21.1900304 Received: 16 May 2019; Accepted: 23 May 2019

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