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West Nile Virus
Reports from University of Nebraska describe recent advances in west nile virus
July 7th, 2009
"This study evaluated the performance of a new Food and Drug Administration-approved lateral-flow diagnostic screening test for qualitative detection of West Nile Virus (WNV) immunoglobulin M (IgM) in serum or plasma. Five public health laboratories across the United States performed retrospective testing on blinded serum samples from patients with physician reported diagnoses of WNV infection," researchers in the United States report. "The results of the RapidWN (TM) WNV IgM assay were compared with two commercially available WNV IgM enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (EIA) and two public health-developed WNV-IgM tests. After discrepancies were resolved, the RapidWN...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-07-07)
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