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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author 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
author_facet 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
author_sort Cadar, Daniel
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description 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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spelling pubmed-53881212017-04-24 Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016 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 Euro Surveill Rapid Communication 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. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5388121/ /pubmed/28422005 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.14.30501 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2017. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
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
Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016
title Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016
title_full Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016
title_fullStr Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016
title_full_unstemmed Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016
title_short Blood donor screening for West Nile virus (WNV) revealed acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection, Germany, September 2016
title_sort blood donor screening for west nile virus (wnv) revealed acute usutu virus (usuv) infection, germany, september 2016
topic Rapid Communication
url 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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