On May 7, 2019, Chembio Diagnostics announced the approval of its DPP Dengue System by Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), Brazil’s health regulatory agency, in collaboration with Bio-Manguinhos, a Brazilian government agency and supplier of diagnostic products to Brazil’s Ministry of Health.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus that is transmitted by female mosquitoes, mainly the species Aedes aegypti and, to a lesser extent, Aedes albopictus, which also transmit chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika viruses.