West Nile Virus Transmission by Solid Organ Transplantation and Considerations for Organ Donor Screening Practices, United States

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 403 - 406
• Main Authors: Soto, Raymond A., McDonald, Emily, Annambhotla, Pallavi, Velez, Jason O., Laven, Janeen, Panella, Amanda J., Machesky, Kimberly D., White, Jennifer L., Hyun, Judie, Freuck, Emily, Habel, Janice, Oh, David, Levi, Marilyn, Hasz, Rick, Eidbo, Elling, Staples, J. Erin, Basavaraju, Sridhar V., Gould, Carolyn V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.02.2022; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Antibodies; arboviruses; Blood & organ donations; Blood products; Blood transfusions; Case studies; Complications and side effects; Disease control; Disease prevention; Disease transmission; Dispatch; donor screening; Donor Selection; Expedited; Hepatitis; Humans; Immunoassay; Infections; Infectious diseases; Liver; Medical laboratories; Mosquitoes; Organ Transplantation - adverse effects; Plasma; Risk factors; solid organ transplantation; Tissue Donors; transmission; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc; Transplants & implants; United States - epidemiology; Vector-borne diseases; viruses; West Nile fever; West Nile Fever - diagnosis; West Nile Fever - epidemiology; West Nile virus; West Nile Virus Transmission by Solid Organ Transplantation and Considerations for Organ Donor Screening Practices, United States; United States; New York; United States > US; donor screening; viruses; transmission; United States; organ procurement organization; West Nile virus; arboviruses; neuroinvasive disease; solid organ transplantation; organ donor screening practices
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2802.211697

West Nile virus (WNV) is the most common domestic arbovirus in the United States. During 2018, WNV was transmitted through solid organ transplantation to 2 recipients who had neuroinvasive disease develop. Because of increased illness and death in transplant recipients, organ procurement organizations should consider screening during region-specific WNV transmission months.