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Guixia Yu

Researcher at University of California, San Francisco

Publications -  44
Citations -  8309

Guixia Yu is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Zika virus. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 40 publications receiving 6058 citations. Previous affiliations of Guixia Yu include Cornell University.

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Two human immunodeficiency virus Type 2 cases in US blood donors including serologic, molecular, and genomic characterization of an epidemiologically unusual case

TL;DR: Blood donation screening for human immunodeficiency virus Type 2 (HIV‐2) has been in place in the United States since 1992 but only three HIV‐2 antibody–positive donors have been reported to date, all detected via HIV‐1 cross‐reactivity.
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Acute Zika virus infection in an asymptomatic blood donor at the onset of the Puerto Rico epidemic

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify an asymptomatic ZIKV infection in a blood donor occurring before those previously recognized by blood donation screening, coincident and related to the first reported autochthonous cases.

Acute Zika Virus Infection in an Asymptomatic Blood Donor at the Onset of the Puerto Rico Epidemic

TL;DR: Zika virus (ZIKV) spread to Puerto Rico likely originated from southeastern Brazil approximately 8.5 months earlier than blood donation screening for ZIKV was initiated, but the time of ZikV introduction in the blood donor population remains unknown.