Low seroprevalence of Zika virus in Cameroonian blood donors

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 481-483

  Gake, Bouba ^a,b   Vernet, Marie A ^b   Leparc Goffart, Isabelle ^a,c   Drexler, Jan Felix ^d   Gould, Ernest A ^a   Gallian, Pierre ^a,e   de Lamballerie, Xavier ^a  

^a Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

^b CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Seroprevalence; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; CAMEROONIAN; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; SEROPREVALENCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIKA VIRUS; CAMEROON; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

BLOOD DONORS; CAMEROON; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ZIKA VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85020414977     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: 16784391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2017.03.018     Document Type: Article

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