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Blood screening for influenza

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2007-01-01

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Article

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10806059
10806040

DOI

10.3201/eid1307.060861

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2-s2.0-34447251928

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Mahidol University

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Bibliographic Citation

Emerging Infectious Diseases. Vol.13, No.7 (2007), 1081-1083

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Michael Kai Hourfar, Anna Themann, Markus Eickmann, Pilaipan Puthavathana, Thomas Laue, Erhard Seifried, Michael Schmidt Blood screening for influenza. Emerging Infectious Diseases. Vol.13, No.7 (2007), 1081-1083. doi:10.3201/eid1307.060861 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/25076

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Blood screening for influenza

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Michael Kai Hourfar
 Anna Themann
 Markus Eickmann
 Pilaipan Puthavathana
 Thomas Laue
 Erhard Seifried
 Michael Schmidt

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Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
 Universitat Marburg
 Mahidol University
 Qiagen GmbH
 Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main

Abstract

Influenza viruses, including highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1), could threaten blood safety. We analyzed 10,272 blood donor samples with a minipool nucleic acid amplication technique. Analytical sensitivity of the method was 804 geq/mL and 444 geq/mL for generic influenza primers and influenza (H5N1) subtype-specific primers. This study demonstrates that such screening for influenza viruses is feasible.

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Medicine

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