Investigation of West Nile virus among healthy blood donors in the western part of Turkey

ULUER BİÇEROĞLU S., Karatayli E., Bayram A., TURHAN A., DEĞİRMENCİ DÖŞKAYA A., AYDINOK Y., ...Daha Fazla

TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, cilt.45, sa.1, ss.84-88, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 45 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3906/sag-1312-50
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.84-88
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: West Nile virus, blood donors, quantitative real-time PCR, UNITED-STATES, INFECTION, OUTBREAK, TRANSMISSION, SEROPREVALENCE, TRANSFUSION, RNA, EPIDEMIC, REGION, HUMANS
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background/aim: The West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus causing different forms of infection among humans, varying from asymptomatic illness to fetal central nervous system infection. Turkey lies within an endemic region for WNV. Transfusion of infected blood products is another well-documented major route of transmission. The aim of our study was to investigate the presence of WNV viremia among a healthy donor population from the western part of the country.