Dengue patients whole blood

Whole blood RNA (PAXgene tubes) was collected from 14 Dengue patients after hospital admission. Additional samples were collected at later time points from 6 of the patients, and single samples were also collected from 4 healthy donors. RNA was amplified using the MessageAmp kit (Ambion), and reverse transcribed. Each sample was labelled with Cy5, and hybridized to a Lymphochip cDNA array along with amplified human reference RNA labelled with Cy3(Universal Human Reference RNA, Stratagene). Analysis was restricted to those array elements (LUIDs) with signal intensity/background of at least 2.5 in either channel for at least 80% (28/34) of the samples, and a regression correlation of 0.6. We characterized gene expression patterns associated with acute dengue infection, and identified a set of transcripts associated with diagnosis of Dengue Shock Syndrome. disease_state_design