West Nile Virus (WNV) seroprevalence in a blood donors group of Milan


Submitted: 13 February 2014
Accepted: 13 February 2014
Published: 30 September 2012
Abstract Views: 1256
PDF: 737
Publisher's note
All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.

Authors

A seroprevalence study for anti West Nile virus was carried out among 864 healthy blood donors living in the metropolitan area of Milan by using a commercially available ELISA method. In addition, the performance of a novel ELISA assay for WNV antibodies was assessed. The sero-prevalence rate of WNV antibodies was 0.57% thus showing that WNV is likely circulating also in this up to now unknown area. The overall sensitivity and specificity of the novel ELISA were 99.9% and 45.4%, respectively, well comparable with that of the chosen reference immunoenzimatic method.

Lunghi, G., Gaibani, P., Matinato, C., Orlandi, A., Zoccoli, A., Bono, P., Pierro, A., Landini, M. P., Sambri, V., & Torresani, E. (2012). West Nile Virus (WNV) seroprevalence in a blood donors group of Milan. Microbiologia Medica, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2012.2298

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Citations


Similar Articles

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.