Prevalence of antibodies to phleboviruses and flaviviruses in Peja, Kosovo

In order to investigate the current and past activity of phlebovirus and flavivirus in Kosovo, a seroprevalence study among 200 blood donors was performed. Positive results were obtained for the phleboviruses TOSV and SFNV, and for a flavivirus of the Japanese Encephalitis group. No positive results...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical microbiology and infection 2011-08, Vol.17 (8), p.1180-1182
Hauptverfasser:	Venturi, G., Marchi, A., Fiorentini, C., Ramadani, N., Quaglio, G., Kalaveshi, A., Bertinato, L., Putoto, G., Benedetti, E., Rezza, G., Ciufolini, M.G.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Antibodies Antibodies, Viral - blood Arbovirus Biological and medical sciences Blood Donors Encephalitis Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Female Flavivirus Flavivirus - immunology Flavivirus Infections - epidemiology Humans Infectious diseases Kosovo Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Phlebotomus Fever - epidemiology Phlebovirus Phlebovirus - immunology Sandfly fever Naples virus - immunology Seroepidemiologic Studies seroprevalence Young Adult Yugoslavia - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:	In order to investigate the current and past activity of phlebovirus and flavivirus in Kosovo, a seroprevalence study among 200 blood donors was performed. Positive results were obtained for the phleboviruses TOSV and SFNV, and for a flavivirus of the Japanese Encephalitis group. No positive results for TBEV were observed.
ISSN:	1198-743X 1469-0691
DOI:	10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03445.x