West Nile Virus Transmission by Solid Organ Transplantation and Considerations for Organ Donor Screening Practices, United States

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Soto, Raymond A. ; McDonald, Emily ; Annambhotla, Pallavi ; Velez, Jason O. ; Laven, Janeen ; Panella, Amanda J. ; Machesky, Kimberly D. ; White, Jennifer L. ; Hyun, Judie ; Freuck, Emily ; Habel, Janice ; Oh, David ; Levi, Marilyn ; Hasz, Rick ; Eidbo, Elling ; Staples, J. Erin ; Basavaraju, Sridhar V. ; Gould, Carolyn V.
• Description:
  West Nile virus (WNV) is the most common domestic arbovirus in the United States. During 2018, WNV was transmitted through solid organ transplantation to 2 recipients who had neuroinvasive disease develop. Because of increased illness and death in transplant recipients, organ procurement organizations should consider screening during region-specific WNV transmission months.
• Subjects:
  Humans Organ Transplantation Tissue Donors West Nile Fever West Nile Virus
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(2):403-406
• Pubmed ID:
  34843660
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8798677
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bf466e9005536654f71db993a1daa8742df88fb3f7a9b1c22dd0372a848952d0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114547/cdc_114547_DS1.pdf
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