| Title | West Nile virus lineage 2 infection in a blood donor from Vienna, Austria, August 2014. |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors | Jungbauer C, Hourfar MK, Stiasny K, Aberle SW, Cadar D, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Mayr WR |
| Journal | Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology// J Clin Virol |
| Volume | 64 |
| Pagination | 16 - 9 |
| Date Published | 2015// |
| ISBN Number | 1873-5967 |
| Other Numbers | cx0, 9815671 |
| Keywords | *Blood Donors, *West Nile Fever/di [Diagnosis], *West Nile Fever/vi [Virology], *West Nile virus/ip [Isolation & Purification], Adult, Austria/ep [Epidemiology], Female, Genome, Viral, Humans, Mass Screening, Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques, Phylogeny, RNA, Viral/bl [Blood], West Nile Fever/ep [Epidemiology] |
| Abstract | Eastern Austria is neighbouring regions with ongoing West Nile virus (WNV) transmissions. Three human WNV infections had been diagnosed during the past decade in Austria. The Austrian Red Cross Blood Service (ARC-BS) started a first voluntary screening for WNV in blood donors from Eastern Austria by Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) in June 2014. This is also the most extensive WNV surveillance programme in humans in Austria so far. In August 2014, one autochthonous WNV infection was detected in a blood donor from Vienna. By now, one in 67,800 whole blood donations was found to be positive for WNV RNA. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| Notify Library Reference ID | 4507 |
