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dc.contributor | Universitat de Barcelona |
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dc.contributor.author | Piron, M. |
dc.contributor.author | Plasència, Antoni |
dc.contributor.author | Fleta-Soriano, E. |
dc.contributor.author | Martínez, Ana |
dc.contributor.author | Martínez, J. P. |
dc.contributor.author | Torner Gràcia, Núria |
dc.contributor.author | Sauleda, S. |
dc.contributor.author | Meyerhans, A. |
dc.contributor.author | Escalé, J. |
dc.contributor.author | Trilla García, Antoni |
dc.contributor.author | Pumarola Suñé, Tomás |
dc.contributor.author | Martínez Yoldi, Miguel Julián |
dc.date | 2016-06-15T11:04:40Z |
dc.date | 2016-12-18T23:01:11Z |
dc.date | 2015-12-18 |
dc.date | 2016-06-13T15:59:48Z |
dc.identifier.citation | 1530-3667 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/99542 |
dc.description.abstract | West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging arbovirus first recognized in Europe in the 1950s. Since then, outbreaks have been reported in several European countries. In 2010, the first WNV outbreak was recorded in Spain, affecting the southern part of the country. We conducted a seroprevalence study in the Catalonia region (northeastern Spain), an area considered at high risk of arbovirus transmission. A total of 800 serum samples from blood donors were collected and screened for antibodies against WNV by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmed by a microneutralization assay. More than 50 samples tested positive by ELISA, but only one sample contained neutralizing antibodies against WNV and was obtained from a donor native of Pakistan. The low seroprevalence detected may serve as reference baseline data for monitoring WNV activity in our region in future years. |
dc.format | 7 p. |
dc.format | application/pdf |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | Mary Ann Liebert |
dc.relation | Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2015.1787 |
dc.relation | Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 2015, vol. 15, num. 12, p. 782-784 |
dc.relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2015.1787 |
dc.rights | (c) Mary Ann Liebert, 2015 |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject | Donants de sang |
dc.subject | Malalties víriques |
dc.subject | Catalunya |
dc.subject | Blood donors |
dc.subject | Virus diseases |
dc.subject | Catalonia |
dc.title | Low Seroprevalence of West Nile Virus in Blood Donors from Catalonia, Spain |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |