West Nile Virus RNA in Tissues from Donor Associated with Transmission to Organ Transplant Recipients

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Blau, Dianna M. ; Rabe, Ingrid B. ; Bhatnagar, Julu ; Civen, Rachel ; Trivedi, Kavita K. ; Rollin, Dominique ; Hocevar, Susan N. ; Kuehnert, Matthew ; Staples, J. Erin ; Zaki, Sherif R. ; Fischer, Marc
• Corporate Authors:
  West Nile Virus Transplant-Associated Transmission Investigation Team
• Description:
  We identified West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in skin, fat, muscle, tendon, and bone marrow from a deceased donor associated with WNV transmission through solid organ transplantation. WNV could not be cultured from the RNA-positive tissues. Further studies are needed to determine if WNV can be transmitted from postmortem tissues.
• Subjects:
  Adult Dispatch Humans Male Organ Transplantation Polymerase Chain Reaction Rna, Viral Tissue Donors West Nile Fever
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 19(9):1518-1520.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6800cb0c5f5515e70039e5b8707a7e6b5479e110ed0214705130e61417f1deae
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20901/cdc_20901_DS1.pdf
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