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Volume 12, Number 3, March 2006

West Nile Virus Infections Projected from Blood Donor Screening Data, United States, 2003

Michael P. Busch,*† David J. Wright,‡ Brian Custer,* Leslie H. Tobler,* Susan L. Stramer,§ Steven H. Kleinman,*‡¶ Harry E. Prince,# Celso Bianco,** Gregory Foster,§ Lyle R. Petersen,†† George Nemo,‡‡ and Simone A. Glynn‡
*Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, USA; †University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; ‡Westat, Rockville, Maryland, USA; §American Red Cross National Testing and Reference Laboratories, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA; ¶University of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; #Focus Diagnostics, Cypress, California, USA; **America's Blood Centers, Washington DC, USA; ††Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; and ‡‡National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 
 
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Figure 1. Yield of West Nile virus nucleic acid amplification test (NAT) screening of 4,585,573 donations at American Red Cross and America's Blood Centers (constituting ≈95% of US collections) from July 1 to October 31, 2003. A total of 944 confirmed viremic donations were identified, including 770 that were detectable by minipool-NAT and 174 detectable only by individual donation NAT. MP, minipool; ID, individual donation.

 

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