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- Title
Whole-Blood Testing for Diagnosis of Acute Zika Virus Infections in Routine Diagnostic Setting.
- Authors
Voermans, Jolanda J. C.; Pas, Suzan D.; van der Linden, Anne; GeurtsvanKessel, Corine; Koopmans, Marion; van der Eijk, Annemiek; Reusken, Chantal B. E. M.
- Abstract
We evaluated the benefit of whole blood versus plasma to detect acute Zika virus infections. Comparison of Zika virus quantitative reverse transcription PCR results in single timepoint whole blood-plasma pairs from 227 patients with suspected Zika virus infection resulted in confirmation of 8 additional patients with Zika virus infection.
- Subjects
ZIKA virus infections; ZIKA virus; BLOOD plasma
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 7, p1394
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2507.182000