Browsing by Author "Germany. Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine"
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False positive dengue NS1 antigen test in a traveller with an acute Zika virus infection imported into Switzerland
Gyurech, Danielle; Schilling, Julian; Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas; et al. (2016-06)We report the first case of an acute Zika virus infection imported into Switzerland by a traveller returning from Canoa Quebrada, Ceará state, in the north-eastern part of Brazil. Due to a false positive dengue virus NS1 ... -
High specificity of a novel Zika virus ELISA in European patients after exposure to different flaviviruses
Huzly, D; Hanselmann, I; Schmidt-Chanasit, J; et al. (2016-06)The current Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in the Americas caused an increase in diagnostic requests in European countries. Here we demonstrate high specificity of the Euroimmun anti-ZIKV IgG and IgM ELISA tests using putative ... -
Prolonged detection of Zika virus RNA in urine samples during the ongoing Zika virus epidemic in Brazil
Campos, Renata de M.; Cirne-Santos, Claudio; Meira, Guilherme L.S.; et al. (2016-06)Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that belongs to the genus Flavivirus. ZIKV may cause Zika virus disease (ZVD) in humans that is characterized by fever, headache, myalgia and rash. The first autochthonous ...