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Similarly, the state’s rural areas have reported 485 cases this year against 260 cases recorded between January and July in 2017. It did not consider cases reported by private hospitals, which use rapid test kits.Ever since the PMC started collating dengue data from private hospitals and started counting cases confirmed by rapid dengue test kits, the number increased. Pune: The number of dengue cases has surged significantly across the state this year. The dengue virus is moving towards the rural areas and this is likely to increase the magnitude of the disease in the near future. Rapid urbanisation of small towns in rural Maharashtra is a reason as well,” said an official.The health department used to consider only dengue cases tested at designated sentinel centres, which use the high-end Elisa test..