Jungbauer C, Hourfar M K, Stiasny K, Aberle S W, Cadar D, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Mayr W R
Austrian Red Cross, Blood Service for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, 1040 Vienna, Austria.
German Red Cross, Blood Service for Baden-Württemberg-Hessen, Frankfurt, Germany.
J Clin Virol. 2015 Mar;64:16-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.01.003. Epub 2015 Jan 5.
Eastern Austria is neighbouring regions with ongoing West Nile virus (WNV) transmissions. Three human WNV infections had been diagnosed during the past decade in Austria. The Austrian Red Cross Blood Service (ARC-BS) started a first voluntary screening for WNV in blood donors from Eastern Austria by Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) in June 2014. This is also the most extensive WNV surveillance programme in humans in Austria so far. In August 2014, one autochthonous WNV infection was detected in a blood donor from Vienna. By now, one in 67,800 whole blood donations was found to be positive for WNV RNA.
奥地利东部与西尼罗河病毒（WNV）持续传播的地区相邻。在过去十年中，奥地利已诊断出三例人类WNV感染病例。奥地利红十字会血液服务中心（ARC-BS）于2014年6月开始对来自奥地利东部的献血者进行首次西尼罗河病毒核酸检测（NAT）自愿筛查。这也是奥地利迄今为止针对人类的最广泛的西尼罗河病毒监测计划。2014年8月，在一名来自维也纳的献血者中检测到一例本土WNV感染病例。截至目前，每67,800份全血捐赠中就有一份被检测出WNV RNA呈阳性。
