West Nile Virus Infections Projected from Blood Donor Screening Data, United States, 2003
Edward L. Murphy*†
, David J. Wright‡, Brian S. 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‡
Author affiliations: *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; ‡‡National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Figure 3. West Nile virus minipool–nucleic acid amplification testing (MP-NAT) yield and immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG seroprevalence estimates for North Dakota, during and ≈8 months after the 2003 epidemic period.
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