Whole-Blood Testing for Diagnosis of Acute Zika Virus Infections in Routine Diagnostic Setting.
Emerg Infect Dis
; 25(7): 1394-1396, 2019 07.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31008703
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.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Serologic Tests
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Diagnostic Tests, Routine
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Zika Virus
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Zika Virus Infection
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Emerg Infect Dis
Journal subject:
DOENCAS TRANSMISSIVEIS
Year:
2019
Document type:
Article