Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016

Between 1 June and 31 December 2016, 13,023 blood donations from the University Hospital Aachen in Germany were routinely screened for West Nile virus (WNV) RNA using the cobas TaqScreen WNV Test. On 28 September 2016, one blood donor was tested positive. Subsequent analysis revealed an acute Usutu...

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Autores principales: Cadar, Daniel, Maier, Philipp, Müller, Susanne, Kress, Julia, Chudy, Michael, Bialonski, Alexandra, Schlaphof, Alexander, Jansen, Stephanie, Jöst, Hanna, Tannich, Egbert, Runkel, Stefan, Hitzler, Walter E, Hutschenreuter, Gabriele, Wessiepe, Martina, Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28422005
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.14.30501
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Sumario:Between 1 June and 31 December 2016, 13,023 blood donations from the University Hospital Aachen in Germany were routinely screened for West Nile virus (WNV) RNA using the cobas TaqScreen WNV Test. On 28 September 2016, one blood donor was tested positive. Subsequent analysis revealed an acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection. During the ongoing USUV epizootics in Germany, blood transfusion services, public health authorities and clinicians should be aware of increased human USUV infections.

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