West Nile virus among blood donors in the United States, 2003 and 2004

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 353, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 451-459

  Stramer, Susan L ^a   Fang, Chyang T ^b   Foster, Gregory A ^a   Wagner, Annette G ^a   Brodsky, Jaye P ^a   Dodd, Roger Y ^b  

^a AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^b Quality Analytics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREVALENCE; RED CROSS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; RED CROSS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 23044487733     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa044333     Document Type: Article

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