Prevalence of antibodies to phleboviruses and flaviviruses in Peja, Kosovo

G Venturi; A Marchi; C Fiorentini; N Ramadani; G Quaglio; A Kalaveshi; L Bertinato; G Putoto; E Benedetti; G Rezza; M G Ciufolini

doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03445.x

Prevalence of antibodies to phleboviruses and flaviviruses in Peja, Kosovo

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2011 Aug;17(8):1180-2. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03445.x. Epub 2011 Jan 28.

Authors

G Venturi¹, A Marchi, C Fiorentini, N Ramadani, G Quaglio, A Kalaveshi, L Bertinato, G Putoto, E Benedetti, G Rezza, M G Ciufolini

Affiliation

¹ Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 21781206
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03445.x

Abstract

In order to investigate the current and past activity of phlebovirus and flavivirus in Kosovo, a seroprevalence study among 200 blood donors was performed. Positive results were obtained for the phleboviruses TOSV and SFNV, and for a flavivirus of the Japanese Encephalitis group. No positive results for TBEV were observed.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Antibodies, Viral / blood*
Blood Donors*
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Female
Flavivirus / immunology*
Flavivirus Infections / epidemiology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Phlebotomus Fever / epidemiology
Phlebovirus / immunology*
Sandfly fever Naples virus / immunology*
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Young Adult
Yugoslavia / epidemiology

Substances

Antibodies, Viral