2019-07-01
Whole-Blood Testing for Diagnosis of Acute Zika Virus Infections in Routine Diagnostic Setting
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Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access) , Volume 25 - Issue 7 p. 1394- 1396
We evaluated the benefit of whole blood versus plasma to detect acute Zika virus infections. Comparison of Zika virus quantitative reverse transcription PCR results in single timepoint whole blood–plasma pairs from 227 patients with suspected Zika virus infection resulted in confirmation of 8 additional patients with Zika virus infection.
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doi.org/10.3201/eid2507.182000, hdl.handle.net/1765/118252 | |
Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access) | |
Organisation | Department of Virology |
Voermans, J., Pas, S., van der Linden, A., GeurtsvanKessel, C., Koopmans, M., D.V.M., Eijck, A., & Reusken, C. (2019). Whole-Blood Testing for Diagnosis of Acute Zika Virus Infections in Routine Diagnostic Setting. Emerging Infectious Diseases - (Open Access), 25(7), 1394–1396. doi:10.3201/eid2507.182000 |