No evidence of West Nile virus infection in Dutch blood donors

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 166-169

  Koppelman, M H G M ^a   Sjerps, M S ^a   De Waal, M ^a   Reesink, H W ^a   Cuypers, H T M ^a  

^a Sanquin Diagnostiek   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood; Blood donors; Procleix WNV assay; Transfusion; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PLASMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 33644621016     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2006.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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