High specificity of a novel Zika virus ELISA in European patients after exposure to different flaviviruses - PubMed (original) (raw)

High specificity of a novel Zika virus ELISA in European patients after exposure to different flaviviruses

Daniela Huzly et al. Euro Surveill. 2016.

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Abstract

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 cross-reacting sera of European patients with antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus, dengue virus, yellow fever virus and hepatitis C virus. This test may aid in counselling European travellers returning from regions where ZIKV is endemic.

Keywords: ELISA; European travellers; Zika virus; cross-reactivity; flavivirus; specificity.

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