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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
L Allering<SUP>1</SUP>, H J?st<SUP>1</SUP>, P Emmerich<SUP>1</SUP>, S G?nther<SUP>1</SUP>, E Lattwein<SUP>2</SUP>, M Schmidt<SUP>3</SUP>, E Seifried<SUP>3</SUP>, V Sambri<SUP>4</SUP>, K Hourfar<SUP>3</SUP><SUP>,5</SUP>, J Schmidt-Chanasit (
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Citation style for this article: Allering L, J?st H, Emmerich P, G?nther S, Lattwein E, Schmidt M, Seifried E, Sambri V, Hourfar K, Schmidt-Chanasit J. Detection of Usutu virus infection in a healthy blood donor from south-west Germany, 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(50)
ii=20341. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20341
Date of submission: 03 December 2012 <HR>From September 2011 until November 2012, 31 serum samples from German patients with clinically suspected acute Usutu virus (USUV) infections were tested for USUV-specific antibodies. All samples tested negative. In addition, 4,200 serum samples from healthy blood donors from south-west Germany were collected in January 2012 and also analysed for the presence of specific antibodies. One sample tested positive for USUV-IgG and -IgM. Thus, the seroprevalence of USUV antibodies in healthy blood donors from south-west Germany was low in January 2012.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 50, 13 December 2012
Rapid communications
Detection of Usutu virus infection in a healthy blood donor from south-west Germany, 2012
Rapid communications
Detection of Usutu virus infection in a healthy blood donor from south-west Germany, 2012
L Allering<SUP>1</SUP>, H J?st<SUP>1</SUP>, P Emmerich<SUP>1</SUP>, S G?nther<SUP>1</SUP>, E Lattwein<SUP>2</SUP>, M Schmidt<SUP>3</SUP>, E Seifried<SUP>3</SUP>, V Sambri<SUP>4</SUP>, K Hourfar<SUP>3</SUP><SUP>,5</SUP>, J Schmidt-Chanasit (
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany
- EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG, L?beck, Germany
- German Red Cross Blood Service Baden-W?rttemberg-Hesse, Frankfurt, Germany
- Microbiology Unit, Regional Reference Centre for Microbiological Emergencies, Bologna, Italy
- The authors contributed equally to this study
Citation style for this article: Allering L, J?st H, Emmerich P, G?nther S, Lattwein E, Schmidt M, Seifried E, Sambri V, Hourfar K, Schmidt-Chanasit J. Detection of Usutu virus infection in a healthy blood donor from south-west Germany, 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(50)
ii=20341. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20341 Date of submission: 03 December 2012 <HR>From September 2011 until November 2012, 31 serum samples from German patients with clinically suspected acute Usutu virus (USUV) infections were tested for USUV-specific antibodies. All samples tested negative. In addition, 4,200 serum samples from healthy blood donors from south-west Germany were collected in January 2012 and also analysed for the presence of specific antibodies. One sample tested positive for USUV-IgG and -IgM. Thus, the seroprevalence of USUV antibodies in healthy blood donors from south-west Germany was low in January 2012.