Increasing West Nile virus antibody titres in central European plasma donors from 2006 to 2010.

نویسندگان

  • P O Rabel
  • C B Planitzer
  • M R Farcet
  • K K Orlinger
  • R Ilk
  • P N Barrett
  • T R Kreil
چکیده

We analysed by neutralisation assay 55 intravenous immunoglobulin preparations produced from human plasma collected in three central European countries, specifically Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, from 2006 to 2010. The preparations from 2009 and 2010 contained increasing titres of neutralising antibodies against West Nile virus (WNV) in the absence of reported human WNV cases in these countries.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

دوره 16 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011