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Abstract

Eastern Austria is neighbouring regions with ongoing West Nile virus (WNV) transmissions. Three human WNV infections had been diagnosed during the past decade in Austria. The Austrian Red Cross Blood Service (ARC-BS) started a first voluntary screening for WNV in blood donors from Eastern Austria by Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) in June 2014. This is also the most extensive WNV surveillance programme in humans in Austria so far. In August 2014, one autochthonous WNV infection was detected in a blood donor from Vienna. By now, one in 67,800 whole blood donations was found to be positive for WNV RNA.

Useful keywords (using NLM MeSH Indexing)

Adult

Austria/epidemiology

Blood Donors*

Female

Genome, Viral

Humans

Mass Screening

Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques

Phylogeny

RNA, Viral/blood

West Nile Fever/diagnosis*

West Nile Fever/epidemiology

West Nile Fever/virology*

West Nile virus/isolation*

purification*

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