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West Nile Virus positive blood donation and subsequent entomological investigation, Austria, 2014

SYSNO ASEP	0443960
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	West Nile Virus positive blood donation and subsequent entomological investigation, Austria, 2014
Author(s)	Kolodziejek, J. (AT) Seidel, B. (AT) Jungbauer, C. (AT) Dimmel, K. (AT) Kolodziejek, M. (AT) Rudolf, Ivo (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Hubálek, Zdeněk (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Allerberger, F. (AT) Nowotny, N. (AT)
Number of authors	9
Source Title	PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science - ISSN 1932-6203 Roč. 10, č. 5 (2015), e0126381
Number of pages	14 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	US - United States
Keywords	West Nile virus ; Austria
Subject RIV	FN - Epidemiology, Contagious Diseases ; Clinical Immunology
Institutional support	UBO-W - RVO:68081766
UT WOS	000354542500095
EID SCOPUS	84930652234
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0126381
Annotation	The detection of West Nile virus (WNV) nucleic acid in a blood donation from Vienna, Austria, as well as in Culex pipiens pupae and egg rafts, sampled close to the donor’s residence, is reported. Complete genomic sequences of the human- and mosquito-derived viruses were established, genetically compared and phylogenetically analyzed. The viruses were not identical, but closely related to each other and to recent Czech and Italian isolates, indicating co-circulation of related WNV strains within a confined geographic area. The detection of WNV in a blood donation originating from an area with low WNV prevalence in humans (only three serologically diagnosed cases between 2008 and 2014) is surprising and emphasizes the importance of WNV nucleic acid testing of blood donations even in such areas, along with active mosquito surveillance programs.
Workplace	Institute of Vertebrate Biology
Contact	Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524
Year of Publishing	2016

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