Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2019
Jolanda J.C. Voermans, Suzan D. Pas, Anne van der Linden, Corine GeurtsvanKessel, Marion Koopmans, Annemiek van der Eijk, and Chantal B.E.M. Reusken
Summary
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.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/7/18-2000_article
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