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Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017 – Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges

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-inf...

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Autores principales: Bakonyi, Tamás, Jungbauer, Christof, Aberle, Stephan W., Kolodziejek, Jolanta, Dimmel, Katharina, Stiasny, Karin, Allerberger, Franz, Nowotny, Norbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29043962
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.41.17-00644
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author Bakonyi, Tamás
Jungbauer, Christof
Aberle, Stephan W.
Kolodziejek, Jolanta
Dimmel, Katharina
Stiasny, Karin
Allerberger, Franz
Nowotny, Norbert
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-57101192017-12-08 Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017 – Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges Bakonyi, Tamás Jungbauer, Christof Aberle, Stephan W. Kolodziejek, Jolanta Dimmel, Katharina Stiasny, Karin Allerberger, Franz Nowotny, Norbert Euro Surveill Rapid Communication 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. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5710119/ /pubmed/29043962 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.41.17-00644 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.
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Bakonyi, Tamás
Jungbauer, Christof
Aberle, Stephan W.
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Dimmel, Katharina
Stiasny, Karin
Allerberger, Franz
Nowotny, Norbert
Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017 – Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges
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title_full Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017 – Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges
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title_full_unstemmed Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017 – Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges
title_short Usutu virus infections among blood donors, Austria, July and August 2017 – Raising awareness for diagnostic challenges
title_sort usutu virus infections among blood donors, austria, july and august 2017 – raising awareness for diagnostic challenges
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29043962
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.41.17-00644
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