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2017
Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017-Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges
Autor:in
Bakonyi, Tamas; Jungbauer, Christof; Aberle, Stephan W.; Kolodziejek, Jolanta; Dimmel, Katharina; Stiasny, Karin; Allerberger, Franz; Nowotny, Norbert
Journal
Abstrakt
Between July and August 2017, seven of 12,047 blood donations from eastern Austria, reacted positive to West Nile virus (WNV) in the cobas test (Roche). Follow-up investigations revealed Usutu virus (USUV) nucleic acid in six of these. Retrospective analyses of four blood donors diagnosed as WNV-infected in 2016 showed one USUV positive. Blood transfusion services and public health authorities in USUV-endemic areas should be aware of a possible increase of human USUV infections.
Schlagwörter
Austria; Blood Donors; Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese; Flavivirus; Humans; Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniquesmethods; Polymerase Chain Reaction; RNA, Viral; Retrospective Studies; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; West Nile virusgeneticsisolation & purification
Dokumententyp
Originalarbeit
CC Lizenz
CCBY
Open Access Type
Gold
ISSN/eISSN
1560-7917 -
10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.41.17-00644
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PubMed ID