TY - JOUR AU - Voermans, Jolanda J.C. AU - Pas,, Suzan AU - van der Linden, Anne AU - GeurtsvanKessel, Corine AU - Koopmans, Marion AU - van der Eijk, Annemiek AU - Reusken, Chantal B.E.M. T1 - Whole-Blood Testing for Diagnosis of Acute Zika Virus Infections in Routine Diagnostic Setting T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 7 SP - 1394 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We evaluated the benefit of whole blood versus plasma to detect acute Zika virus infections. Comparison of Zika virus quantitative reverse transcription PCR results in single timepoint whole blood–plasma pairs from 227 patients with suspected Zika virus infection resulted in confirmation of 8 additional patients with Zika virus infection. KW - Zika virus KW - whole blood KW - RT-PCR KW - diagnostics KW - viruses KW - diagnosis DO - 10.3201/eid2507.182000 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/7/18-2000_article ER - End of Reference