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ArticlePloS one2013

Antibody responses in humans infected with newly emerging strains of West Nile Virus in Europe.

Stefan Chabierski, Gustavo R Makert, Alexandra Kerzhner, Luisa Barzon, Petra Fiebig, Uwe G Liebert, Anna Papa, Justin M Richner, Matthias Niedrig, Michael S Diamond and 2 more

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Stefan ChabierskiDepartment of Immunology, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany.
Gustavo R Makert
Alexandra Kerzhner
Luisa Barzon
Petra Fiebig
Uwe G Liebert
Anna Papa
Justin M Richner
Matthias Niedrig
Michael S Diamond
Giorgio Palù
Sebastian Ulbert
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology · DELeipzig University · DEUniversity of Padua · ITWashington University in St. Louis · USAristotle University of Thessaloniki · GRRobert Koch Institute · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection with West Nile Virus (WNV) affects an increasing number of countries worldwide. Although most human infections result in no or mild flu-like symptoms, the elderly and those with a weakened immune system are at higher risk for developing severe neurological disease. Since its introduction into North America in 1999, WNV has spread across the continental United States and caused annual outbreaks with a total of 36,000 documented clinical cases and ∼1,500 deaths. In recent years, outbreaks of neuroinvasive disease also have been reported in Europe. The WNV strains isolated during these outbreaks differ from those in North America, as sequencing has revealed that distinct phylogenetic lineages of WNV concurrently circulate in Europe, which has potential implications for the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostic tests. Here, we studied the human antibody response to European WNV strains responsible for outbreaks in Italy and Greece in 2010, caused by lineage 1 and 2 strains, respectively. The WNV structural proteins were expressed as a series of overlapping fragments fused to a carrier-protein, and binding of IgG in sera from infected persons was analyzed. The results demonstrate that, although the humoral immune response to WNV in humans is heterogeneous, several dominant peptides are recognized.

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Amino Acid SequenceAntibody FormationCommunicable Diseases, EmergingDisease OutbreaksEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayEpitopes, B-LymphocyteGreeceHistory, 21st CenturyHumansImmunoglobulin GItalyMolecular Sequence DataProtein BindingSpecies SpecificityWest Nile FeverWest Nile virusEpitopes, B-LymphocyteImmunoglobulin G

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PMID23776680
PMCPMC3680493
OpenAlexW2091314361

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