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SUBMITTER: Cadar D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388121 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cadar Daniel D Maier Philipp P Müller Susanne S Kress Julia J Chudy Michael M Bialonski Alexandra A Schlaphof Alexander A Jansen Stephanie S Jöst Hanna H Tannich Egbert E Runkel Stefan S Hitzler Walter E WE Hutschenreuter Gabriele G Wessiepe Martina M Schmidt-Chanasit Jonas J
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20170401 14
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. ...[more]