West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014

The detection of West Nile virus (WNV) nucleic acid in a blood donation from Vienna, Austria, as well as in Culex pipiens pupae and egg rafts, sampled close to the donor’s residence, is reported. Complete genomic sequences of the human- and mosquito-derived viruses were established, genetically comp...

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Autores principales: Kolodziejek, Jolanta, Seidel, Bernhard, Jungbauer, Christof, Dimmel, Katharina, Kolodziejek, Michael, Rudolf, Ivo, Hubálek, Zdenek, Allerberger, Franz, Nowotny, Norbert
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25961567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126381
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author Kolodziejek, Jolanta
Seidel, Bernhard
Jungbauer, Christof
Dimmel, Katharina
Kolodziejek, Michael
Rudolf, Ivo
Hubálek, Zdenek
Allerberger, Franz
Nowotny, Norbert
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Seidel, Bernhard
Jungbauer, Christof
Dimmel, Katharina
Kolodziejek, Michael
Rudolf, Ivo
Hubálek, Zdenek
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description The detection of West Nile virus (WNV) nucleic acid in a blood donation from Vienna, Austria, as well as in Culex pipiens pupae and egg rafts, sampled close to the donor’s residence, is reported. Complete genomic sequences of the human- and mosquito-derived viruses were established, genetically compared and phylogenetically analyzed. The viruses were not identical, but closely related to each other and to recent Czech and Italian isolates, indicating co-circulation of related WNV strains within a confined geographic area. The detection of WNV in a blood donation originating from an area with low WNV prevalence in humans (only three serologically diagnosed cases between 2008 and 2014) is surprising and emphasizes the importance of WNV nucleic acid testing of blood donations even in such areas, along with active mosquito surveillance programs.
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spelling pubmed-44271332015-05-21 West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014 Kolodziejek, Jolanta Seidel, Bernhard Jungbauer, Christof Dimmel, Katharina Kolodziejek, Michael Rudolf, Ivo Hubálek, Zdenek Allerberger, Franz Nowotny, Norbert PLoS One Research Article The detection of West Nile virus (WNV) nucleic acid in a blood donation from Vienna, Austria, as well as in Culex pipiens pupae and egg rafts, sampled close to the donor’s residence, is reported. Complete genomic sequences of the human- and mosquito-derived viruses were established, genetically compared and phylogenetically analyzed. The viruses were not identical, but closely related to each other and to recent Czech and Italian isolates, indicating co-circulation of related WNV strains within a confined geographic area. The detection of WNV in a blood donation originating from an area with low WNV prevalence in humans (only three serologically diagnosed cases between 2008 and 2014) is surprising and emphasizes the importance of WNV nucleic acid testing of blood donations even in such areas, along with active mosquito surveillance programs. Public Library of Science 2015-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4427133/ /pubmed/25961567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126381 Text en © 2015 Kolodziejek et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Kolodziejek, Jolanta
Seidel, Bernhard
Jungbauer, Christof
Dimmel, Katharina
Kolodziejek, Michael
Rudolf, Ivo
Hubálek, Zdenek
Allerberger, Franz
Nowotny, Norbert
West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014
title West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014
title_full West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014
title_fullStr West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014
title_full_unstemmed West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014
title_short West Nile Virus Positive Blood Donation and Subsequent Entomological Investigation, Austria, 2014
title_sort west nile virus positive blood donation and subsequent entomological investigation, austria, 2014
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25961567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126381
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