Diagnosis of west nile virus human infections: Overview and proposal of diagnostic protocols considering the results of external quality assessment studies

Viruses

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2329-2348

  Sambri, Vittorio ^a   Capobianchi, Maria R ^b   Cavrini, Francesca ^a   Charrel, Rémi ^c   Donoso Mantke, Olivier ^d   Escadafal, Camille ^d   Franco, Leticia ^e   Gaibani, Paolo ^a   Gould, Ernest A ^c,f   Niedrig, Matthias ^d   Papa, Anna ^g   Pierro, Anna ^a   Rossini, Giada ^a   Sanchini, Andrea ^d,h   Tenorio, Antonio ^e   Varani, Stefania ^a   Vázquez, Ana ^e   Vocale, Caterina ^a   Zeller, Herve ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^f CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^h EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

External quality assurance; State of the art laboratory diagnostic; West nile virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE REDUCTION NEUTRALIZATION TEST; QUALITY CONTROL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS INFECTION;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84884788985     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v5102329     Document Type: Review

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