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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 41, 13 October 2011
Rapid communications
West Nile virus: the Italian national transplant network reaction to an alert in the north-eastern region, Italy 2011
A Nanni Costa (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, M R Capobianchi<SUP>2</SUP>, G Ippolito<SUP>2</SUP>, G Pal?<SUP>3</SUP><SUP>,4</SUP>, L Barzon<SUP>3</SUP><SUP>,4</SUP>, G Piccolo<SUP>5</SUP>, B Andreetta<SUP>6</SUP>, M Filippetti<SUP>1</SUP>, D Fehily<SUP>1</SUP>, L Lombardini<SUP>1</SUP>, P Grossi<SUP>7</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Nanni Costa A, Capobianchi MR, Ippolito G, Pal? G, Barzon L, Piccolo G, Andreetta B, Filippetti M, Fehily D, Lombardini L, Grossi P. West Nile virus: the Italian national transplant network reaction to an alert in the north-eastern region, Italy 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(41)
ii=19991. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19991
Date of submission: 05 October 2011 <HR>We report four cases of West Nile virus (WNV) transmission following a single multiorgan donation in north-eastern Italy. The transmissions were promptly detected by local transplant centres. The donor had been tested for WNV by nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) prior to transplantation and was negative. There were no detected errors in the nationally implemented WNV safety protocols.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 41, 13 October 2011
Rapid communications
West Nile virus: the Italian national transplant network reaction to an alert in the north-eastern region, Italy 2011
A Nanni Costa (
- National Transplant Centre, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
- National Institute for Infectious Diseases (INMI) ?L. Spallanzani?, Rome, Italy
- Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnology, University of Padova, Italy
- Regional Reference Centre for Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Virology Unit, University Hospital, Padova, Italy
- Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
- North Italy Transplant Interregional Coordinating Transplant Centre, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
- Veneto Regional Coordinating Transplant Centre, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Padua, Italy
Citation style for this article: Nanni Costa A, Capobianchi MR, Ippolito G, Pal? G, Barzon L, Piccolo G, Andreetta B, Filippetti M, Fehily D, Lombardini L, Grossi P. West Nile virus: the Italian national transplant network reaction to an alert in the north-eastern region, Italy 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(41)
Date of submission: 05 October 2011 <HR>We report four cases of West Nile virus (WNV) transmission following a single multiorgan donation in north-eastern Italy. The transmissions were promptly detected by local transplant centres. The donor had been tested for WNV by nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) prior to transplantation and was negative. There were no detected errors in the nationally implemented WNV safety protocols.