Seroprevalence of Heartland Virus Antibodies in Blood Donors, Northwestern Missouri, USA

We estimated the seroprevalence of Heartland virus antibodies to be 0.9% (95% CI 0.4%–4.2%) in a convenience sample of blood donors from northwestern Missouri, USA, where human cases and infected ticks have been identified. Although these findings suggest that some past human infections were undetec...

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Autores principales: Lindsey, Nicole P., Menitove, Jay E., Biggerstaff, Brad J., Turabelidze, George, Parton, Pat, Peck, Kim, Basile, Alison J., Kosoy, Olga I., Fischer, Marc, Staples, J. Erin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6346440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30511916
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2502.181288
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Sumario:We estimated the seroprevalence of Heartland virus antibodies to be 0.9% (95% CI 0.4%–4.2%) in a convenience sample of blood donors from northwestern Missouri, USA, where human cases and infected ticks have been identified. Although these findings suggest that some past human infections were undetected, the estimated prevalence is low.

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