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Chikungunya virus – new risk to transfusion safety in the Americas
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    Kuehnert, Matthew J.; Basavaraju, Sridhar V.; Moseley, Robin R.; Pate, Lisa L.; Galel, Susan A.; Williamson, Phillip C.; Busch, Michael P.; Alsina, Jose O.; Climent-Peris, Consuelo; Marks, Peter W.; Epstein, Jay S.; Nakhasi, Hira L.; Hobson, J. Peyton; Leiby, David A.; Akolkar, Pradip N.; Petersen, Lyle R.; Rivera-García, Brenda;
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    June 24, 2016
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    MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 65, no. 24, p. 627-628
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    On June 17, 2016, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.Transfusion-transmitted infections have been documented for several arboviruses, including West Nile and dengue viruses (1). Zika virus, a flavivirus transmitted primarily by Ae...
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  2. Genomic Assays for Identification of Chikungunya Virus in Blood Donors, Puerto Rico, 2014
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    Chiu, Charles Y.; Bres, Vanessa; Yu, Guixia; Krysztof, David; Naccache, Samia N.; Lee, Deanna; Pfeil, Jacob; Linnen, Jeffrey M.; Stramer, Susan L.;
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    Aug 2015
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    Emerg Infect Dis. 21(8):1409-1413.
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    A newly developed transcription-mediated amplification assay was used to detect chikungunya virus infection in 3 of 557 asymptomatic donors (0.54%) from Puerto Rico during the 2014-2015 Caribbean epidemic. Viral detection was confirmed by using PCR, ...
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  3. High Incidence of Chikungunya Virus and Frequency of Viremic Blood Donations during Epidemic, Puerto Rico, USA, 2014
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    Simmons, Graham; Brès, Vanessa; Lu, Kai; Liss, Nathan M.; Brambilla, Donald J.; Ryff, Kyle R.; Bruhn, Roberta; Velez, Edwin; Ocampo, Derrek; Linnen, Jeffrey M.; Latoni, Gerardo; Petersen, Lyle R.; Williamson, Phillip C.; Busch, Michael P.;
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    Jul 15 2016
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    Emerg Infect Dis. 22(7):1221-1228.
    Description:
    Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused large epidemics throughout the Caribbean in 2014. We conducted nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) for CHIKV RNA (n = 29,695) and serologic testing for IgG against CHIKV (n = 1,232) in archived blood donor sampl...
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  4. Cost projections for implementation of safety interventions to prevent transfusion-transmitted Zika virus infection in the United States
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    Ellingson, Katherine D.; Sapiano, Mathew R.P.; Haass, Kathryn A.; Savinkina, Alexandra A.; Baker, Misha L.; Henry, Richard A.; Berger, James J.; Kuehnert, Matthew J.; Basavaraju, Sridhar V.;
    Published Date:
    Jun 2017
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    Transfusion. 57(Suppl 2):1625-1633.
    Description:
    BACKGROUNDIn August 2016, the Food and Drug Administration advised US blood centers to screen all whole blood and apheresis donations for Zika virus (ZIKV) with an individual-donor nucleic acid test (ID-NAT) or to use approved pathogen reduction tech...
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  5. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, Vol. 65, no. 5, February 12, 2016
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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
    Published Date:
    February 12, 2016
    Series:
    MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 65, no. 5
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