... cited study of Lanciotti et al. [9] have lostsome predicted sensitivity with the sequencing of avery large number of additional dengue strains sincethat time.On lowering the stringency of ... strainsand facilitating a rapid detection method. *In thispaper, ‘sensitivity’ refers to the diagnostic sensitivity,which is different from analytical sensitivity. Diagnos-tic sensitivity ... specificity of the dengue primers was tested against 291nondengue flaviviruses, including 67 strains of Japaneseencephalitis virus, 28 strains of St Louis encephalitis virus,172 strains of West...